“Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept.”

— Hermann Hesse , book Demian

Source: Demian (1919), p. 162
Context: One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept." That was clear to me now.

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