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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.

Hermann Hesse

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Chaos Demand Determination Order Recognition
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
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
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Flower Heart Try
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
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
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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Born Destroy Fight God Philosophy World
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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Himself Leadership Men Path World
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Action Greatness Life Myself
A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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Be Yourself Deep Men Success World
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
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
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious

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