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Demian by Hermann Hesse
4.0
challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

‘The bird struggles out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world.’

‘Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak… surrender to them. Don’t ask first whether it’s permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.’

‘The things we see are the same things that are within us. There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.’

‘Each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden… forbidden for him. It’s possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa.’