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There is no reality except the one contained within us.

Hermann Hesse

Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Funny Knowledge Practice Theory
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Admire Happiness Love
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Heart Myself Nature Tears Tree
Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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Break Up Children Deserve Destroy Love Mystery Passion
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
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
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Apperance Home Tree
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
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
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
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

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