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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

Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
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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Death Lose Oneself Spiritual Transformation
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
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
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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Be Yourself Deep Men Success World
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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Afraid Harmony People Yourself
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Positive Time Yourself
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
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth

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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