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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.

Hermann Hesse

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Communication Love Relationship
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
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Force Passion Soul Spiritual World
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
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
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
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
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Death Lose Oneself Spiritual Transformation
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
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
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
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
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.

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