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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

Hermann Hesse

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
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Positive Time Yourself
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
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
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
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Encouragement Hurt Love
Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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Night Soul World
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
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
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
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
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
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

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