To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
HERMANN HESSEBeauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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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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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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The river is everywhere.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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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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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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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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