Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a…

Hermann Hesse
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Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself. ✨ Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse
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