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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

Hermann Hesse

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
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
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
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
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
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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Art Life Wisdom
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
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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Himself Leadership Men Path World

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

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