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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

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
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
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
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
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Business Creative Fools Home Joy Passion Pleasure
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
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
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Leadership Responsibility Thinking
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
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
The truth is lived, not taught.
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