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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

Hermann Hesse

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
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Literature Seek Value
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
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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Himself Leadership Men Path World
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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Equality Expression Truth World
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
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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Despair Hard Time Inspirational Kill Life Order Peace
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Life Reality
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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Evil Real Time
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Comfortable Death Fire Liberty
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
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
Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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Accident Enough Forever Serious Time Value
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
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
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
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Instagram Captions Life Love Relationship Yourself
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Positive Time Yourself

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