Hermann Hesse Quote

The world had caught him; pleasure, covetousness, idleness, and finally also that vice he had always despised and scorned as the most foolish—acquisitiveness. Property, possessions and riches had also finally trapped him. They were no longer a game and a toy. They had become a chain and a burden.

H. Rosner, trans. (Bantam: 1971), pp. 76-79 - Siddhartha (1922)