To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps t…

Hermann Hesse
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To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastophe of nature. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2013). Steppenwolf: A Novel, p.45, Macmillan
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To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastophe of nature. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2013). Steppenwolf: A Novel, p.45, Macmillan

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