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'In all beginnings dwells a magic force ...' but very few knew the ending: 'For guarding us and helping us to live.' And hardly anyone realised that Hesse wasn't talking about new beginnings.
He meant a readiness to bid farewell.
Farewell to old habits.
Farewell to illusions.
Farewell to a long-expired life, in which one was nothing but a husk, rustled by the occasional sigh.
(Hesse's Stages)