The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer i…

Hermann Hesse
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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2013). Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography, p.218, Macmillan
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