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The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation.

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
Mind
Annihilation
Reconciliation
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International
National
Ought
Peace
War
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