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"We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth."
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"A man needs only his daily bread."

"Simplicity shall make you simple and keep you away from so many woes of life! It is simple! Just go for simplicity and be simple, Period!"

"Complexity is a product of unawareness and simplicity a result of awareness! Uncomplex yourself, Live Life!"

"Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!"

"No baggage - there was the secret of existence."

"Life is very simple. Just sometimes put your head away, sometimes behead yourself, sometimes look with no clouds in the eyes - just look. Sometimes sit by the side of a tree - just feel. By the side of a waterfall - listen. Lie down on the beach and listen to the roar of the ocean, feel the sand, the coolness of it, or look at the stars, and let that silence penetrate you. Or look at the dark night and let that velvety darkness surround you, envelop you, dissolve you. This is the way of the simple heart."

"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."

"A cup of tea is all I need to keep working."

"If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!"
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"A writer needs a partner who can act as fuel to his artistic mind, yet has the great ability to sober him up and help him be in sync with the non-artistic part of his soul."

"Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man's worst selfish instincts."

"Having a deep sense of understanding is a huge burden for a mind that can't directly influence things."

"Nothing crushes the soul of a father more than the loss of the beloved son he failed to lavish his love on."

"Our recollections bring out our joyful smiles, but hardly make us chortle or guffaw; our recollections often leave imprints on our faces that show our regrets, but they hardly produce sounds that echo the depth of those regrets."

"Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world."

"Men have the blood of their fathers and the passions of their mothers, in the same sense that women have the blood of their mothers and the passions of their fathers. We often find ourselves trapped in life when we fail to balance the two. The most unusual of men are those who are haunted by the warped blood of their fathers and the untamed passions of their mothers. They become either the legends of the legends that mankind remembers for generations or they end up as the fools of their time."

"A man has a hard time feeling fulfilled when he lives a life that does not serve a purpose that is more than himself."

"It is better for a realist to bend his will and ethics to accommodate a true friend than it is for him to stick to his principles that may turn the friend into an adversary."
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