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I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.
Hermann Hesse
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Hermann Hesse
Age: 85 †
Born: 1877
Born: July 2
Died: 1962
Died: August 9
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Hermann Karl Hesse
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.
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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
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I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.
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I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.
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