A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
HERMANN HESSEPassion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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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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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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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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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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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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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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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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