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Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.

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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
Beautiful
Without
World
Childlike
Searching
Thus
Simply
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