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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

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Solitude is independence.

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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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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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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

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Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

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Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

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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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It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Novelist

Born: July 2nd, 1877

Died: August 9th, 1962

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