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A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.

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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
Truth
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Rash
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Statements
Regret
Thousand
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