Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all…

Hermann Hesse
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Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2013). Steppenwolf: A Novel, p.206, Macmillan
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Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2013). Steppenwolf: A Novel, p.206, Macmillan

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