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“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 world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: admiration, love, philosophy, respect, world

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“Long ago you were a dream in your mother's sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

tags: becoming, birth, creation, imminence, inherency, motherhood, sleep

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“So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: love, making-love, pleasure, respect, sensuality, sex, touch

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