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"Not sure how only now I got into this book. 10 pages in and I know this will be a blast" — Jan 24, 2026 12:18PM
"Not sure how only now I got into this book. 10 pages in and I know this will be a blast" — Jan 24, 2026 12:18PM
“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
“One never reaches home,' she said. 'But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time.”
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
“There is always a punishment for radiance. I had forgotten. People hate it when you are happy for no reason, or when your personality changes. I used to become a water lily. They like everyone to act the same way forever.”
― The Princess of 72nd Street
― The Princess of 72nd Street
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
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“Normal people say, I can’t imagine feeling so bad I’d genuinely want to die. I do not try and explain that it isn’t that you want to die. It is that you know you are not supposed to be alive, feeling a tiredness that powders your bones, a tiredness with so much fear. The unnatural fact of living is something you must eventually fix.”
― Sorrow and Bliss
― Sorrow and Bliss
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