That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have su…

Hermann Hesse
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That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die! ✨ Peter Camenzind. Book by Hermann Hesse, 1904.
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