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Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

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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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“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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“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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