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  1. Hermann Hesse _ Demian: The Story of Emil

    wieviel Gramm Pulver man braucht, um einen Menschen zu töten,"
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  2. Hermann Hesse _ Demian: The Story of Emil

    human beings, each one of whom is a priceless, unique experiment of nature, are being shot to death in carloads.1 If
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  3. Hermann Hesse _ Demian: The Story of Emil

    The things we see," Pistorius said quietly, "are the same things that are in us. The only reality is the one we have in us.
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  4. Hermann Hesse _ Demian: The Story of Emil

    No. I like to listen to music, but only the kind you play-absolute music, the kind where you can feel someone rattling the gates of Heaven and Hell. I think I like music because it has so little to do with morality. Everything else is moral or immoral, and I am looking for something that isn't. Morality has only ever made me suffer. I'm not expressing myself very well. - Did you know that there needs to be a god who is god and devil at once? I have heard it said that there once was a god like that." The
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  5. Hermann Hesse _ Demian: The Story of Emil

    And at that point the realization suddenly burned me like a searing flame: For each person there was an "office," but for nobody was there one that he was permitted to choose for himself, to define, and to fill according to his own wishes. It was wrong to desire new gods, it was totally wrong to try and give the world anything! There was no duty for enlightened people, none, none, except this: to seek themselves, to become certain of themselves, to grope forward along their own path, wherever it might lead.-I
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  6. Hermann Hesse _ Demian: The Story of Emil

    Everyone lives through this difficult period. For the average person it's the point in his life when the demands of his own life clash most violently with the world around him, when his forward path must be fought for most bitterly. Many experience this death and rebirth, which are our destiny, only this once in their life, when childhood decays and slowly disintegrates, when all that has become dear to us is about to leave us and we suddenly feel the solitude and deathly chill of outer space around us. And very many are hung up for good on this reef and for the rest of their life cling painfully to the irretrievable past, to the dream of the lost paradise, which is the worst and most murderous of all dreams.
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    We who bore the mark might well be considered by the rest of the world as strange, even as insane and dangerous. We had awoken, or were awaking, and we were striving for an ever more perfect state of wakefulness, whereas the ambition and quest for happiness of the others consisted of linking their opinions, ideals, and duties, their life and happiness, ever more closely with those of the herd.
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  8. Hermann Hesse _ Demian: The Story of Emil

    I was a gamble of Nature, a throw of the dice into an uncertain realm, leading perhaps to something new, perhaps to nothing; and to let this throw from the primordial depths take effect, to feel its will inside myself and adopt it completely as my own will: that alone was my vocation. That alone! I"
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  9. Hermann Hesse _ Demian: The Story of Emil

    It's so good to know that inside us there's a self that knows everything!
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  10. Hermann Hesse _ Demian: The Story of Emil

    Everyone had only one true vocation: to find himself. Let him wind up as a poet or a madman, as a prophet or a criminal-that wasn't his business; in the long run, it was irrelevant. His business was to discover his own destiny, not just any destiny, and to live it totally and undividedly. Anything else was just a half-measure, an attempt to run away, an escape back to the ideal of the masses, an adaptation, fear of one's own nature.
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  11. Hermann Hesse _ Demian: The Story of Emil

    All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?
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  12. Hermann Hesse _ Demian: The Story of Emil

    I was a gamble of Nature, a throw of the dice into an uncertain realm, leading perhaps to something new, perhaps to nothing; and to let this throw from the primordial depths take effect, to feel its will inside myself and adopt it completely as my own will: that alone was my vocation. That alone! I
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