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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

Hermann Hesse

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
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Evil Goal Goodness Life Togetherness Voice
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Dignity Disappointment Suffering Understand
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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Believe Deep Endurance Happiness Life Love Perspective
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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Believe Faith Goodness Inspirational Transformation
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 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
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
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
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
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

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

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