If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.
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Original Citation
Hesse, Herman. Getrud [Gertrude]. Albert Langen, 1910.
Current Citation
Hesse, Herman. Gertrude, translated by Hilda Rosner. Picador, 2005.