I don't know whether my life has been useless and merely a misunderstanding, or whether it has a meaning.

Hermann Hesse The Glass Bead Game
Also known as: Hermann Karl Hesse
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About Hermann Hesse

Hermann Karl Hesse (2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His most famous works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi) all of which explore an individual's search for spirituality.

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"Should we be mindful of dreams?" Joseph asked. "Can we interpret them?"

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No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a man could approve of every doctrine, each and every one, every path, every goal; nothing separated him any longer from all those thousands of others who lived in the eternal, who breathed the Divine.