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Less Than Zero
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"😴 I would dnf, but it’s a short book. I’ll push though all these drug parties" Mar 14, 2026 02:00PM

 
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Hermann Hesse
“My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious,
as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos,
of madness and dreams — like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.”
Herman Hesse, Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair’s Youth

Madeline Miller
“There was a sort of innocence to him, I thought. I do not mean this as the poets mean it: a virtue to be broken by the story's end, or else upheld at great cost. Nor do I mean that he was foolish or guileless. I mean that he was made only of himself, without the dregs that clog the rest of us. He thought and felt and acted, and all these things made a straight line. No wonder his father had been so baffled by him. He would have always been looking for the hidden meaning, the knife in the dark. But Telemachus carried his blade in the open.”
Madeline Miller, Circe

Hermann Hesse
“En estos momentos tuve una certeza fulminante: cada uno tenía una “misión”, pero ésta no podía ser elegida, definida, administrada a voluntad. Era un error desear nuevos dioses, y completamente falso querer dar algo al mundo. No existía ningún deber, ninguno, para el hombre consciente, excepto el de buscarse a sí mismo, afirmarse en su interior, tantear un camino hacia adelante sin preocuparse de la meta a que pudiera conducir. (...) Aquellas imágenes no valían nada. Yo no estaba en el mundo para escribir, predicar o pintar; ni yo ni nadie estaba para eso. Tales cosas sólo podían surgir marginalmente. La misión verdadera de cada uno era llegar a sí mismo. Se podía llegar a poeta o a loco, a profeta o a criminal; ese no es asunto de uno: a fin de cuentas, carecía de toda importancia. Lo que importaba era encontrar su propio destino, no un destino cualquiera, y vivirlo por completo. Todo lo demás eran medianías, un intento de evasión, de buscar refugio en el ideal de la masa, era amoldarse; era miedo ante la propia individualidad.”
Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

Madeline Miller
“Children are not sacks of grain, to be substituted one for the other.”
Madeline Miller, Circe

Madeline Miller
“I asked her how she did it once, how she understood the world so clearly. She told me that it was a matter of keeping very still and showing no emotions, leaving room for others to reveal themselves.”
Madeline Miller, Circe

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