If a beautiful thing were to remain beautiful for all eternity, I'd be glad, but all the same I'd look at it with a cold — Hermann Hesse, Knulp
If a beautiful thing were to remain beautiful for all eternity, I'd be glad, but all the same I'd look at it with a cold — Hermann Hesse, Knulp
If a beautiful thing were to remain beautiful for all eternity, I'd be glad, but all the same I'd look at it with a cold — Hermann Hesse, Knulp
If a beautiful thing were to remain beautiful for all eternity, I'd be glad, but all the same I'd look at it with a cold — Hermann Hesse, Knulp
If a beautiful thing were to remain beautiful for all eternity, I'd be glad, but all the same I'd look at it with a cold — Hermann Hesse, Knulp
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If a beautiful thing were to remain beautiful for all eternity, I'd be glad, but all the same I'd look at it with a colder eye. I'd say to myself: You can look at it any time, it doesn't have to be today.

— Hermann Hesse, Knulp
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