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Happiness is love, nothing else.

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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Happiness
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
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