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I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

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
Diversity
Blood
Knowledge
Felt
Like
World
Circulate
Unity

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