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Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which i see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.
-Hermann Hesse
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Among The Letters My Readers Write Me,

Hermann Hesse
Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which i see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.
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