You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
HERMANN HESSEIf you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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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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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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