"Love" in "Narcissus and Goldmund" (a novel by Herman Hesse)

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…return, had shaken him, had forced him to doubt his self- examination. He was his equal; Narcissus had given back to him nothing that had not been given back to him many times over.' These are the thoughts of someone deeply in love. Finally, all the points in my definition of love had been covered, and as Goldmund passes on, he does so beside the one person in his life that truly loves him.