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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.

Hermann Hesse

The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Freedom Goal Inspirational
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
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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Flower Heart Try
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Deep Destroy Violence
I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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Difference Dream Inspirational People
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
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
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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Believe Deep Endurance Happiness Life Love Perspective
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
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
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

He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.

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