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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.

Hermann Hesse

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
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
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
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
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
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
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
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
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Freedom Goal Inspirational
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
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
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
In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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Equality Expression Truth World
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Leadership Responsibility Thinking

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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