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“Their most primitive, even their wildest feelings were not for the enemy; their bloody task was merely an outward radiation of the inner soul, the divided soul filled with the lust to rage and kill, annihilate and die so that it might be born anew. a giant bird was struggling out. of the egg; the egg was the world and the world must first be rent asunder.”
― Herman Hesse, Demian

“Now and again I was overwhelmed with a profound regret concerning this happiness, for I knew very well that it could not last. It was not my lot to breathe freely in fullness and comfort, I needed the spur of torment. I felt that one day I would awaken out of these wonderful dream-fantasies and stand quite alone again, in the cold world of other people where there was nothing but solitude or struggle for me.”
― Herman Hesse, Demian

“It is a bitter and terrible moment when we suddenly recognise that our natural tendency is bound to lead us away from the people we love.”
― Herman Hesse, Demian

“In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.”
― Herman Hesse, Demian