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

Hermann Hesse

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
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
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
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
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
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
Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Hurt Love Resistance Suffering
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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Believe Doubt Hands
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
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men

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