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I think a lot of it comes down to one passage where he says that life is full of duality where you can have either one thing or the other, but never both, and to get the one thing you would have to sacrifice the other. But that these two aspects embodied by Narcissus and Goldmund are both essential parts of life.

I also felt like Goldmund was seeing his mother everywhere. He missed out on here and had to grow up wi

So far, this is the best opening of a book I've ever read.