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Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.

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
Suffering
Siddhartha
Stopped
Hour
Fate
Hours
Fighting

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