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Hermann Hesse

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
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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Men Money Nature Power Ruin
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Home Reach
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Force Passion Soul Spiritual World
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Himself Inspirational Men Profession True
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Heart Myself Nature Tears Tree
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Life Reality
Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Hurt Love Resistance Suffering
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Inspirational Life Teaching Wisdom
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity

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