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.

Author: Herman Hesse

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Solitude is independence.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.

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

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.