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

Hermann Hesse

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Believe Doubt Hands
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Business Creative Fools Home Joy Passion Pleasure
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Deep Hate Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual
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
Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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Inspirational Life Positive
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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Men Money Nature Power Ruin
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
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
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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Afraid Harmony People Yourself
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
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
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
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
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
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life 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
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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Afraid People Philosophy
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
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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Body Himself Life Sin Spirit
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Life Reality
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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Demand Love Strength Strong
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
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

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