All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
HERMANN HESSESolitude is independence.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Solitude is independence.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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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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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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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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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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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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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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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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