"Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading."

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"Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on the morrow, loving fiercely and discardi…"

— Hermann Hesse

Literature1861–1948

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