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If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Hermann Hesse

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Hold On Let Go Life Love Strength
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Beautiful Clever Opinion
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Courage Fun Life Patience Tranquility Weapon
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
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
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
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
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Heart Myself Nature Tears Tree
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

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