• 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: 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 (1969). “Gertrude”