Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
HERMANN HESSEHis 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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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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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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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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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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