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You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.

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
Apprehension
Gold
Fantasies
Pure
Mud
Within
Sunlight
Happiness
Opposites
Pain
Laughter
Shirk
Death
Fantasy
Nausea
Everything
Filth
Nothing
Childhood

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