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Every true reader could, even if not one new book were published, spend decades and centuries studying on, fighting on, continuing to rejoice in the treasure of those already at hand.

Every true reader could, even if not one new book were published, spend decades and centuries studying on, fighting on, continuing to rejoice in the treasure of those already at hand.

Approximate author period: c. 1919 AD · modern

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Hermann Hesse
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Approximate author period: c. 1919 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1877 to 1962; Wikidata Q25973, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25973 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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