“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
“I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?”
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”
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“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
― No man is an island – A selection from the prose
― No man is an island – A selection from the prose
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