Living intentionally

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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.

Hermann Hesse

Gertrude

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Topic

Living intentionally Purpose of life Personal growth Authenticity

Author

Hermann Hesse

Source

Gertrude

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hesse, Herman. Getrud [Gertrude]. Albert Langen, 1910.

Current Citation

Hesse, Herman. Gertrude, translated by Hilda Rosner. Picador, 2005.