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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.

Hermann Hesse

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Deep Hate Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Apperance Home Tree
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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Equality Expression Truth World
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Evil Goal Goodness Life Togetherness Voice
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Beautiful Clever Opinion
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Instagram Captions Life Love Relationship Yourself
You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.
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Alone Friendship Travel Yourself
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
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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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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Despair Hard Time Inspirational Kill Life Order Peace
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

His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.

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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.

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