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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.

Hermann Hesse

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.
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Deep Hate Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Courage Fun Life Patience Tranquility Weapon
The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
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
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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Body Himself Life Sin Spirit
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
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
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Freedom Goal Inspirational
It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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Desire Heart Judgement Listening Opinion Passion Wait
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
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Hurt Love Resistance Suffering
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
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Evil Goal Goodness Life Togetherness Voice

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