Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for…

Hermann Hesse
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Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2002). The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel, p.43, Macmillan
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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2015). Siddhartha: An … ▶
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Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2002). The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel, p.43, Macmillan

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