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" I, myself, felt changed, was no longer a single person, but a part of all people, seeing good and bad features in all. I felt I could not love a person here and hate another person there. I was ashamed of my lack of understanding and saw clearly for the first time in my young life that one could not go through life and amongst people so simply, hating one person and loving another, respecting one person and despising another, but all this emotions were closely tied up, hardly separable and at times hardly distinguishable. "

Hermann Hesse , Gertrude


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Hermann Hesse quote : I, myself, felt changed, was no longer a single person, but a part of all people, seeing good and bad features in all. I felt I could not love a person here and hate another person there. I was ashamed of my lack of understanding and saw clearly for the first time in my young life that one could not go through life and amongst people so simply, hating one person and loving another, respecting one person and despising another, but all this emotions were closely tied up, hardly separable and at times hardly distinguishable.