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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

Hermann Hesse

Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Flower Heart Try
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
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
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
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Action Greatness Life Myself
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
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
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
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
Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Chaos Demand Determination Order Recognition
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Instagram Captions Life Love Relationship Yourself
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
Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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Accident Enough Forever Serious Time Value
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Deep Destroy Violence

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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