"He thought, that all men, trickled away, changing constantly, until they finally dissolved, while the artist-created images remained unchangeably the ...

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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