Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. (Hermann Hesse)

Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity.

Hermann Hesse

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