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Like every man of importance he had his daimonion and his amor fati; but in him amor fati manifests itself to us free of somberness and fanaticism.

Hermann Hesse, trans. Richard Winston and Clara Winston, introduction by Theodore Ziolkowski, The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher]

Hermetic quote Hesse The Glass Bead Game free of somberness and fanaticism

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