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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.

Hermann Hesse

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Beautiful Book Wall
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
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
It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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Desire Heart Judgement Listening Opinion Passion Wait
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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Art Life Wisdom
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
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Life Reality
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
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
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
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
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth

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