He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become ne…

Hermann Hesse
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He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2015). Siddhartha: An Indian Tale, p.112, Om Books International
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