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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.

Hermann Hesse

Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Freedom Goal Inspirational
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
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Inspirational Life Teaching Wisdom
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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Equality Expression Truth World
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Comfortable Death Fire Liberty
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Hold On Let Go Life Love Strength
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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Age Happiness Mindset People Talent Youth
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Positive Time Yourself

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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