My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound …

Hermann Hesse
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My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2013). Steppenwolf: A Novel, p.70, Macmillan
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My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2013). Steppenwolf: A Novel, p.70, Macmillan

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