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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Hermann Hesse

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Hold On Let Go Life Love Strength
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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Born Destroy Fight God Philosophy World
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
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
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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Enough Investment Suffering
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Communication Deep Different Talk
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Comfortable Death Fire Liberty
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
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
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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Body Himself Life Sin Spirit
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
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
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Life People Reality World Yoga

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