Lascia che te lo dica oggi quanto ti voglio bene, quanto tu sei stato sempre per me, come hai arricchito la mia vita. [...] Tu non puoi misurare ciò che significhi. Significa la sorgente in un deserto, l'albero fiorito in un terreno selvaggio. A te solo debbo che il mio cuore non sia inaridito, che sia rimasto in me un punto accessibile alla grazia.

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Between Lake Constance and India

With the literary fame Hesse married Maria Bernoulli (of the famous family of mathematicians) in 1904 settled down with her in Gaienhofen on Lake Constance and began a family eventually having three sons. His next novel Gertrude publiHermann Hessed in 1910 revealed a production crisis.

His best-known works include Steppenwolf Siddhartha and The Glass Bead Game each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity self-knowledge and spirituality. Hermann Hesse (German: [ˈhɛɐ̯man ˈhɛsə]; July 2 1877 – August 9 1962) was a German-Swiss poet novelist and painter.