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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

Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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Path Philosophy
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
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Death Lose Oneself Spiritual Transformation
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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Book Stars Teaching
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
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Encouragement Hurt Love
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
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Deep Destroy Violence

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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