So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and …

Hermann Hesse
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So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2013). Narcissus and Goldmund: A Novel, p.270, Macmillan
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