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Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

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“All men are ready to do the impossible when their ideals are threatened. But when a new ideal is announced—a new demand for growth, unsettling and perhaps dangerous—everyone cowers. When the transformations of the Earth's crust cast aquatic animals onto land and terrestrial animals into the sea, it was the specimens open to any destiny who faced the new and unheard-of, and were able to save their species through new adaptations.”

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“We who bore the mark might well be considered by the rest of the world as strange, even as insane and dangerous. We had awoken, or were awakening, and we were striving for an ever perfect state of wakefulness, whereas the ambition and quest for happiness of the others consisted of linking their opinions, ideals, and duties, their life and happiness, ever more closely with those of the herd. They, too, strove; they, too showed signs of strength and greatness. But as we saw it, whereas we marked men represented Nature's determination to create something new, individual, and forward-looking, the others lived in the determination to stay the same. For them mankind--which they loved as much as we did--was a fully formed entity that had to be preserved and protected. For us mankind was a distant future toward which we were all journeying, whose aspect no one knew, whose laws weren't written down anywhere.”

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“In every piece of music he played, I heard more than the piece itself - it seemed as though everything he played was related, mysteriously connected...all of them said the same thing, said what the musician had in his soul too: yearning, a sincere grasping at the world combined with desperately cutting oneself off from it, a fervent hearkening to one's own dark soul, the frenzy of devotion and a profound curiosity about the miraculous.”

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“But when we have offered love and reverence of our own accord, and not out of habit, when we have been disciples and friends with our innermost feelings, then it is a bitter and terrible moment when the realization is suddenly brought home to us that the guiding current of our life is bearing us away from those we love. Then the terrified heart flees anxiously back to the valleys of childhood virtues, and cannot believe that the rupture must take place, that another bond must be severed.”

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“Todos los hombres pasan por estas dificultades. Para el hombre medio es éste el punto en que las exigencias de su propia vida entran en colisión dramática con las circunstancias, el punto en que tiene que luchar más duramente por alcanzar el camino que conduce hacia adelante. Muchos viven tal morir y renacer, que es nuestro destino, sólo en ese momento de su vida en que el mundo infantil se resquebraja y se derrumba lentamente, cuando todo lo que amamos nos abandona y, de pronto, sentimos la soledad y la frialdad mortal del universo que nos rodea. Muchos se estrellan para siempre en este escollo y permanecen toda su vida apegados dolorosamente a un pasado irrecuperable, al sueño del paraíso perdido, que es el peor y más nefasto de todos los sueños.”

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“Las cosas que vemos – dijo Pistorious con voz apagada – son las mismas cosas que llevamos en nosotros. No hay más realidad que la que tenemos dentro. Por eso la mayoría de los seres humanos vive tan irrealmente, porque cree que las imágenes exteriores son la realidad y no permiten a su propio mundo interior manifestarse. Se puede ser muy feliz así, desde luego. Pero cuando se conoce lo otro, ya no se puede elegir el camino de la mayoría. Sinclair, el camino de la mayoría es fácil, el nuestro, difícil. Caminemos.”

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“Mas cada homem não é apenas ele mesmo; é também um ponto único, singularíssimo, sempre importante e peculiar, no qual os fenômenos do mundo se cruzam daquela forma uma só vez e nunca mais. Assim, a história de cada homem é essencial, eterna e divina, e cada homem, ao viver em alguma parte e cumprir os ditames da Natureza, é algo maravilhoso e digno de toda a atenção”

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“Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, which they can therefore recount as God Himself might, nothing standing between them and the naked truth, the entire story meaningful in every detail. I am as little able to do this as the novelist is, even though my story is more important to me than any novelist's is to him - for this is my story; it is the story of a man, not of an invented, or possible, or idealized, or otherwise absent figure, but of a unique being of flesh and blood, Yet, what a real living human being is made of seems to be less understood today than at any time before, and men - each one of whom represents a unique and valuable experiment on the part of nature - are therefore shot wholesale nowadays. If we were not something more than unique human beings, if each one of us could really be done away with once and for all by a single bullet, storytelling would lose all purpose. But every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of every consideration. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.”

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“A whole society composed of the unknown within them! They all sense that the rules they live by are no longer valid, that they live according to archaic laws--neither their religion nor their morality is in any way suited to the needs of the present. For a 100 years or more Europe has done nothing but study and build factories. They know exactly how many ounces of powder to kill a man but they don't know how to pray to God, they don't even know how to be happy for a single contented hour.”

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“Pero te voy a decir una cosa: éste es uno de los puntos en los que aparecen con toda claridad los fallos de nuestra religión. El Dios del Antiguo y Nuevo Testamento es, en efecto, una figura extraordinaria; pero no es lo que debe representar. Él es lo bueno, lo noble, lo paternal, lo hermoso, y, también, lo elevado y lo sentimental. ¡De acuerdo! Sin embargo, el mundo se compone de otras cosas; y éstas se adjudican simplemente al diablo, escamoteando y silenciando toda una mitad del mundo. Se venera a Dios como padre de la vida, negando al mismo tiempo la vida sexual, sobre la que se basa la vida misma, declarándola diabólica y pecaminosa. No tengo nada en contra de que se venere al Dios Jehová. ¡En absoluto! Pero opino que deberíamos santificar y venerar al mundo en su totalidad, no sólo a esa mitad oficial, separada artificialmente. Por lo tanto, deberíamos tener un culto al demonio junto al culto divino. Sería lo justo. O si no, habría que crear un dios que integrara en sí al diablo y ante el que no tuviéramos que cerrar los ojos cuando suceden las cosas más naturales de la vida.”

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“Nos sentimos tentados a creerlos caprichos nuestros, creaciones propias, vemos vacilar y disolverse la frontera entre nosotros y la naturaleza, y adquirimos conciencia de un estado de ánimo en el que no sabemos si las imágenes en nuestra retina provienen de impresiones exteriores o interiores. En ningún otro momento descubrimos con tanta facilidad la medida en que somos creadores, en que nuestra alma participa constantemente en la recreación de la vida. Una misma divinidad invisible actúa en nosotros y en la naturaleza, y si el mundo exterior desapareciera, cualquiera de nosotros sería capaz de reconstruirlo, porque los montes y los ríos, los árboles y las hojas, las raíces y las flores, todo lo creado en la naturaleza, está ya prefigurado en nosotros: proviene del alma, cuya esencia es eterna, y escapa a nuestro conocimiento, pero que se nos hace patente como fuerza amorosa y creadora.”

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“Bizler uyanmış ya da uyanmakta olan kişilerdik; çabamız, hep mükemmel bir uyanıklık durumunu ele geçirmeye yönelikti. Oysa başkalarının çaba ve arayışları, kendi görüş ve ideallerini, kendi ödevlerini, kendi yaşamlarını ve mutluluklarını peşine takıldıkları sürününkilere giderek daha sıkı bir şekilde bağlamaya yönelikti. Bu insanlarda da çaba, bu insanlarda da güç ve büyüklük eksik değildi. Kanımızca biz nişanı taşıyanlar doğanın yeniliğe, sürüden ayrılmışlığa ve geleceğe ilişkin istemini oluştururken, başkaları bulundukları yerden ayrılmamakta direten bir istemi canlandırıyordu. Onların da bizim gibi sevdiği insanlık, kendilerine göre gelişimini tamamlamıştı ve bu durumuyla ayakta tutulup korunması gerekiyordu. Oysa bizim için uzak bir gelecekti insanlık, hepimiz bu geleceğe ulaşmak için yola koyulmuştuk; öyle bir gelecek ki, nasıl bir görünüm taşıdığını kimse bilmiyordu, yasaları hiçbir yerde yazılı değildi.”

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