Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without a…

Hermann Hesse
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Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2015). Siddhartha: An Indian Tale, p.52, Om Books International
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