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

Hermann Hesse

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
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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Age Happiness Mindset People Talent Youth
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
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
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
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Hurt Love Resistance Suffering
We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Home Reach
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
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
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

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

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