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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
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
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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Born Destroy Fight God Philosophy World
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
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Evil Goal Goodness Life Togetherness Voice
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
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
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Heart Myself Nature Tears Tree
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Deep Hate Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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Literature Seek Value
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Beautiful Clever Opinion
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
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality

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