Sara

“Imagine someone is racing intentionally towards his own destruction and you can save him - do you go ahead and save him?”
― Bernhard Schlink

“I see that you think more than you can express. But, if that’s the case, you must also know that you have never fully lived out your thoughts, and that isn’t good. Only the thoughts that we live out have any value. You knew that your ‘permissible world’ was only half the world, and you tried to hide away the second half from yourself, the way clergymen and teachers do. You won’t succeed! No one can do that when he has once begun to think.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian

“When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn’t inside us can’t excite us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian

“No one ever arrives home,” she said amiably. “But when the paths of friends meet, the whole world looks like home for a while.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian