Hermann Hesse. Steppenwolf (№ 309513)

From the women I loved before, I've always demanded of intelligence and education, not quite aware of the fact that even very intelligent and relatively educated woman never answered the queries of my mind, and always resisted them; I came to the women with their problems and thoughts, and it seemed to me utterly impossible to love longer than some hours the girl who doesn't read almost any book, almost do not know what read, and would be unable to distinguish Tchaikovsky from Beethoven.