I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melanchol…

Hermann Hesse
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2013). Peter Camenzind: A Novel, p.100, Macmillan
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2013). Peter Camenzind: A Novel, p.100, Macmillan

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