It was the first rift in my father’s sanctity, it was the first nick in the pillars on which my childish life had rested, and which every human being must destroy before he can become himself. It is of these experiences, invisible to everyone, that the inner, essential line of our destiny consists. That kind of rift and nick closes over again, it is healed and forgotten, but in the most secret chamber of the mind it continues to live and bleed. Demian

"Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire." The Analects of Confucius

Where pride is insistent enough, memory prefers to give way. Man and His Symbols

People like you to be something, preferably what they are. East Of Eden