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If what matters in a person's ...

If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward
destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.

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I was given the freedom to dis...

I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope
and product of my own strength.

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A mere nothing suffices Ђ' and...

A mere nothing suffices Ђ' and the lightning strikes.

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And some day there will be not...

And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come and the motherly earth will gather me back home. It won't be the end of things, only a way of being born again, a bathing and a slumbering where the old and the withered sink down, where the young and new begin to breathe. Then, with other thoughts, I will walk along streets like these, and listen to streams, and overhear what the sky

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We kill at every step, not onl...

We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness,all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.

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Faith is stronger than so-call...

Faith is stronger than so-called reason.

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Romantic souvenirs had a way o...

Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously.

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But of all the water's secrets...

But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed, it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment! Oh, to be able to grasp this, to understand this!

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You are only afraid if you are...

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself.

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He had loved and he had found ...

He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.

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Each man's life represents a r...

Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path... But each of us - experiments of the depths - strives toward his own destiny. We can understand one another; but each of us is able to interpret himself to himself alone.

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a person is never entirely hol...

a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.

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The opposite of every truth is...

The opposite of every truth is just as true.

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I suddenly saw how sad and art...

I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of these years were discarded like badly fitting clothes. I parted from them without pain and all that remained was to wonder that I could have endured them so long.

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You can ride, you can travel w...

You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own;
The final step you must take alone.
No wisdom is better than this when known:
That every hard thing is done alone.

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You love nobody. Is that not t...

You love nobody. Is that not true?' 'Maybe,' said Siddhartha wearily. 'I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love as an art? Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

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He saw that the water continua...

He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there; it was always the same and yet every moment it was new.

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What is the holding of breath?...

What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of Self. It is a temporary palliative against the pain and folly of life.

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Whether you and I and a few ot...

Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day.

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The judge who sits over the mu...

The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of the murderer in his own soul and hears the murderer's voice as his own, is at the next moment one and indivisible as the judge, and scuttles back into the shell of his cultivated self and does his duty and condemns the murderer to death.

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