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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

Hermann Hesse

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Dignity Disappointment Suffering Understand
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
I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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Book Stars Teaching
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
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
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
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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Body Himself Life Sin Spirit
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
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
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
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

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