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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.

Hermann Hesse

A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
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
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Literature Seek Value
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Communication Love Relationship
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
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
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
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
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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Desire Heart Judgement Listening Opinion Passion Wait
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Leadership Responsibility Thinking
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity

Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.

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