Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us …

Hermann Hesse
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Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2013). Peter Camenzind: A Novel, p.75, Macmillan
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