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“Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day.” quote by Hermann Hesse — Download Open image

“Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day.”

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