Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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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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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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