Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolera…

Hermann Hesse
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Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness. ✨ Gertrud. Book by Hermann Hesse, 1910.
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