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"This Steppenwolf of ours has always been aware of at least the Faustian two-fold nature within him. He has discovered that the one-fold of the body is not inhabited by a one-fold of the soul, and that at best he is only at the beginning of a long pilgrimage towards this ideal harmony. he would like either to overcome the wolf and become wholly man, or to renounce mankind and to live wholly a wolf's life. It may be presumed that he has never carefully watched a real wolf. Had he done so, he would have seen, perhaps, that even animals are not undivided in spirit. With them, too, the well-knit beauty of the body hides a being of manifold states and strivings. The wolf, too, has his abysses."

- Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf