She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and de…

Hermann Hesse
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She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2013). Steppenwolf: A Novel, p.140, Macmillan
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She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2013). Steppenwolf: A Novel, p.140, Macmillan

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