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Herman Hesse

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Herman Hesse

Happiness

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Herman Hesse is saying that happiness can come in short moments, no matter how brief, even if life’s events last only a little while. He also points out that these fleeting experiences of happiness have continued to happen to him, including when he was old.

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