• It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.

    Hermann Hesse: It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.
    "Narcissus and Goldmund". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1930.