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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.

Hermann Hesse

A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Communication Love Relationship
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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Demand Love Strength Strong
A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Beautiful Book Wall
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Force Passion Soul Spiritual World
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Heart Myself Nature Tears Tree
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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Born Destroy Fight God Philosophy World
Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Funny Knowledge Practice Theory
Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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Inspirational Life Positive
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Business Creative Fools Home Joy Passion Pleasure
Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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Night Soul World
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Action Greatness Life Myself
Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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Break Up Children Deserve Destroy Love Mystery Passion

I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.

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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.

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