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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Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.Hermann Hesse
In this evil year, autumn comes early.
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There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.
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To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
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Everything becomes a little bit different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
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