| Author Quoted | Hermann Hesse |
| Title Quoted | Journey to the East / translation of Die Morgenlandfahrt by Hilda Rosner |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1968/10/02 |
| Imprint | New York : Farrar. Straus & Giroux, 1961 |
| Quotation | "My own journey and life-goal which had colored my dreams since late boyhood was to see the beautiful Princess Fatima and if possible to win her love." (H. Hesse, Journey to the East)." I met and loved Ninnon, known as ‘the foreigner"'"”she was jealous of Fatima"”"the princess of my dreams and yet she was probably Fatima herself without knowing it." [Note 14: This is taken from Hermann Hesse's The Journey to the East, translated from the German by Hilda Rosner (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1961), 24.] |
| Quotation Source | The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 7, 1967-1968.; Edited by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1998, p. 196-97 |
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