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Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1922
Originally in
Originally in German
Pages
Pages 160

A Brahmin's son leaves home to seek enlightenment, tries asceticism, meets the Buddha, then wealth, lust and despair, and finally hears everything he sought in the voice of a river.

I can think. I can wait. I can fast.
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse

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