We cannot evade life's course, but we can school ourselves to be superior to fortune and also to look unflinchingly upon the most painful things. (Hermann Hesse)

We cannot evade life's course, but we can school ourselves to be superior to fortune and also to look unflinchingly upon the most painful things.

Hermann Hesse

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