Never is a man or a deed wholly Samsara or wholly Nirvana; never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. (Hermann Hesse)

Never is a man or a deed wholly Samsara or wholly Nirvana; never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

Hermann Hesse

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