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

Hermann Hesse

You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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Alone Friendship Travel Yourself
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
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
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
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
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
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
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Inspirational Life Teaching Wisdom
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
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
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
The truth is lived, not taught.
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