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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.

Hermann Hesse

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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Difference Dream Inspirational People
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
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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Afraid People Philosophy
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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Break Up Children Deserve Destroy Love Mystery Passion
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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Path Philosophy
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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Book Stars Teaching
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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Afraid Harmony People Yourself
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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Body Himself Life Sin Spirit
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
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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Flower Heart Try
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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Believe Deep Endurance Happiness Life Love Perspective
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy

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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