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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

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
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Leadership Responsibility Thinking
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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Afraid People Philosophy
Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Believe Doubt Hands
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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Path Philosophy
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Admire Happiness Love
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
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Funny Knowledge Practice Theory
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
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

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