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So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?

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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Taken
Live
Even
Dancing
Dance
Step
Steps

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