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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

Hermann Hesse

I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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Difference Dream Inspirational People
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
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
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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Afraid People Philosophy
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
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
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
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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Age Happiness Mindset People Talent Youth
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
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
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Inspirational Life Teaching Wisdom
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul 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

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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