For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter,…

Hermann Hesse
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For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal. ✨ Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse
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For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal. ✨ Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

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