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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.

Hermann Hesse

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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Chaos Demand Determination Order Recognition
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
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
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
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
The truth is lived, not taught.
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Learning Literature Truth
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Laughter Learning Serious
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Admire Happiness Love
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love 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
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Force Passion Soul Spiritual World
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Deep Destroy Violence
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality

Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.

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