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There is no reality except the one contained within us.

Hermann Hesse

Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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Inspirational Life Positive
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
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
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
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
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
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
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
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
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
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
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
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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Deep Destroy Violence
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

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