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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Hermann Hesse

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
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
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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Evil Real Time
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Action Greatness Life Myself
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Character Courage Inspirational
Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Funny Knowledge Practice Theory
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
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
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
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Courage Fun Life Patience Tranquility Weapon
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Existence Reality Yourself
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching

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