Hermann Hesse quote: For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear ...

For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.

~ Hermann Hesse ~

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