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Solitude is independence.

Hermann Hesse

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Beautiful Clever Opinion
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
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
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.
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Alone Friendship Travel Yourself
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
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
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
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
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
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Instagram Captions Life Love Relationship Yourself
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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Demand Love Strength Strong
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Home Reach
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity

Solitude is independence.

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