It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. East Of Eden

 “I can’t realize where the story ends and life begins. Sometimes they look at me strangely, then I wake up.” My Sweet Orange Tree

I know that many people won’t believe that a child not yet eleven is capable of such feelings. It is not to those people that I am telling my story. I’m telling it to those who have greater knowledge of humanity. An adult who has learned how to transform part of his emotions into thought processes notices that such thoughts aren’t present in a child, and then concludes that the experiences aren’t present, either. But only seldom in my life have I had such deep and painful experiences as I had then. Demian

“Nothing was more excruciating to the hunger artist than such watchers. They depressed him.”  A Hunger Artist