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“My story isn’t pleasant, it’s not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.”

Demian • Hermann Hesse

“an being above and a fish below. But each one is a gamble of Nature, a”

Demian • Hermann Hesse

“Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.”

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce

“I often ardently perceived a longing for relief, the desire for a proper confession, but I also felt in advance that I would be unable to tell and explain things correctly to either my father or mother. I knew that they would receive my words amicably, they would carefully spare my feelings, in fact, pity me, but they wouldn’t fully understand me, and the whole thing would be looked on as a sort of minor infraction, whereas it was actually my fate.”

Demian • Hermann Hesse

“Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is -- a vice?”

Twilight of the Idols • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche