Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
HERMANN HESSEIf time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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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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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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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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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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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Solitude is independence.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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