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But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

Hermann Hesse

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Hermann Hesse
Age: 85 †
Born: 1877
Born: July 2
Died: 1962
Died: August 9
Illustrator
Literary
Novelist
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Resistance Fighter
Writer
Hermann Karl Hesse
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Questions
Spring
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Unanswerable
Erroneous

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