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“Do not scold, my dear friend. Nothing was ever achieved by scolding. If a loss has been sustained, I will bear the loss. I am very satisfied with this journey. I have become acquainted with many people, I have become friendly with a Brahmin, children have sat on my knee, farmers have showed me their fields. Nobody took me for a merchant.”
Hermann Hesse • Siddhartha

Age of the Feuilleton
Hermann Hesse • The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel
Once all of myself was overcome and had died, once every desire and every urge was silent in the heart, then the ultimate part of me had to awake, the innermost of my being, which is no longer myself, the great secret.
Hermann Hesse • Siddhartha
Moreover, they had to learn to renounce all those benefits which previous generations of scholars had considered worth striving for:
Hermann Hesse • The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel
One would call out, in the standardized abbreviations of their science, motifs or initial bars of classical compositions, whereupon the other had to respond with the continuation of the piece, or better still with a higher or lower voice, a contrasting theme, and so forth.
Hermann Hesse • The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel
Sans doute ce ne sont pas toujours les désirs d’un homme qui règlent son destin et sa mission, mais quelque chose d’autre : une prédestination. »
Hermann Hesse • Narcisse et goldmund (Esotérisme) (French Edition)
In this sense, then, we have endeavored to obtain information on the life of Joseph Knecht, Master of the Glass Bead Game, and especially to collect everything written by himself.