An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

Hermann Hesse
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  1. If I know what love is, it is because of you.

  2. Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

  3. Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

  4. It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the...

  5. Love must not entreat, ' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

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