Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
HERMANN HESSEThe 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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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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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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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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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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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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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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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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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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Passion 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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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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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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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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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Solitude is independence.
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