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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

Hermann Hesse

A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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Be Yourself Deep Men Success World
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
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
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Hold On Let Go Life Love Strength
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
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
Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Believe Doubt Hands
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
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
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
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
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
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

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

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