Source: You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
“One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh.”
—
Hermann Hesse
,
book
Steppenwolf
Source: Steppenwolf (1927), p. 218
Context: One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too.
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