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Hermann Hesse

Demian is a classic coming-of-age story that continues to inspire generations of readers in its exploration of good and evil, morality, and self-discovery. The main character of this classic novel, Emil Sinclair, is a young boy raised in a bourgeois home. Emil's entire existence can be summarized as a struggle between two worlds—the show world of illusion and the real world, the world of spiritual truth. According to Hesse, the novel is a story of Jungian individuation, the process of opening up to one's unconsciousness.

Demian

Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

shen

All I wanted to do was try to live the life that was inside me, trying to get out. Why was that so hard?

tuna

If someone asked me to define myself in a quote, I would choose this one. 

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I need to feel beautiful and holy things around me, always: music, mystery cults, symbols, myths. I need it, and i refuse to give it up. that's my fatal flaw, Sinclair.

Claire Jorgensen

But every person is more than himself: he is also the remarkable point of intersection where the phenomena of the world overlap, only once and never again in just this way. That is why everyone's story is important, eternal, and godlike- why everyone, as long as and in whatever fashion he lives and fulfills the will of Nature, is wonderful and worthy of all our attention.

-from the perspective of a ten year old dealing with guilt 

For the first time I tasted death, and death tastes bitter because it is birth: anxiety and terror in the face of frightening renewal. 

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He too, was a tempter; he too was a link between me and the other world, wicked and bad, which I now wanted nothing more ever to do with.

...how greatly our own soul constantly participates in the continual creation of the world.

Everytime hesse talks about the inate power of our souls to love and create i just want to cry 😀💕

every form in nature has its model and prototype within us and arises from the soul whose essence is eternity, whose nature we do not know but which shows itself primarily as the power to love and the power to create. 

"No one can ever go home," came her friendly reply. "But when friends' paths meet, the whole world can look like home for a time."

Chaïmae

“La vie de chaque homme est un chemin vers soi-même (…) Chacun porte en soi, jusqu’à sa fin, les restes de sa naissance (…) chacun de nous est un essai de la nature, dont le but est l’homme. (…) Nous pouvons nous comprendre les uns les autres, mais personne n’est expliqué que par soi-même.”

“La contemplation des formes étranges, confuses, irrationnelles de la nature fait naître en nous le sentiment de l’harmonie qui existe entre notre âme et la volonté qui laissa ces formes se créer. Bientôt, nous sommes tentés de les prendre pour nos propres caprices, pour nos propres créations. Nous voyons s’effacer et disparaître les limites qui nous séparent de la nature, et nous parvenons alors à l’état dans lequel nous ne savons plus si les images imprimées sur notre rétine proviennent d’impressions extérieures ou intérieures. C’est alors que nous découvrons, le plus facilement et le plus simplement, combien nous sommes créateurs, combien notre âme participe à la création perpétuelle de l’univers”

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