“I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.”
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
“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.”
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
“The pain of being alone is completely out of this world, isn't it? I don't know why, but I understand your feelings so much, it actually hurts. ”
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“أحكي للعالم أحكي له
عن بيتٍ كَسروا قِنديله
عن فأسٍ قتلت زنبقةً
وحريقٍ أودى بجديلة..
أحكي عن شاةٍ لم تُحلب
عن عَجنةِ أُمّ ما خُبزت
عن سقفٍ طينيّ أعشب
أحكي للعالم أحكي له..
يا بنتَ الجارِ المنسيّة
الدُّمية عندي محميّة
الدُّمية عندي فَتعالي
في باصِ الرّيح الشرقيّة..
حنّا لا أذكرُ قَسماتك
لكني أشقى كي أذكر
في قلبي خَفقةُ خطواتك
عصفورٌ يَدرج أو يكبر..
أحكي للعالم أحكي له
عن بيتٍ كَسروا قِنديله
عن فأسٍ قتلت زنبقةً
وحريقٍ أودى بجديلة..
كُنّا ما أجملَ ما كُنّا
يا بنتَ الجارِ ويا حنّا
كنّا فلماذا أعيننا
صارت بالغربة مجبولة
ولماذا صارت أيدينا
بحبالِ اللعنة مجدولة..”
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عن بيتٍ كَسروا قِنديله
عن فأسٍ قتلت زنبقةً
وحريقٍ أودى بجديلة..
أحكي عن شاةٍ لم تُحلب
عن عَجنةِ أُمّ ما خُبزت
عن سقفٍ طينيّ أعشب
أحكي للعالم أحكي له..
يا بنتَ الجارِ المنسيّة
الدُّمية عندي محميّة
الدُّمية عندي فَتعالي
في باصِ الرّيح الشرقيّة..
حنّا لا أذكرُ قَسماتك
لكني أشقى كي أذكر
في قلبي خَفقةُ خطواتك
عصفورٌ يَدرج أو يكبر..
أحكي للعالم أحكي له
عن بيتٍ كَسروا قِنديله
عن فأسٍ قتلت زنبقةً
وحريقٍ أودى بجديلة..
كُنّا ما أجملَ ما كُنّا
يا بنتَ الجارِ ويا حنّا
كنّا فلماذا أعيننا
صارت بالغربة مجبولة
ولماذا صارت أيدينا
بحبالِ اللعنة مجدولة..”
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