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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

Hermann Hesse

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
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
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
A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Apperance Home Tree
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
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
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
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
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
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

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