"Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a litt...

A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.
~ Hermann Hesse ~












A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.
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