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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Hermann Hesse

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
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
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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Break Up Children Deserve Destroy Love Mystery Passion
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
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
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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Book Stars Teaching
We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Home Reach
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent

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