“Everyone's life is a journey to themselves. Though none have attained self-realization, all strive for it—some plodding, some with less effort, but all as best they can. Each of us caries the remains of our birth—slime and eggshells—with us to the end.”

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“I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.”

Chapters: 18. The Sick Society

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“The ideal man of the Karamazovs loves nothing and everything, does nothing and everything. He is primeval matter, monstrous soul-stuff. He cannot live in this form; he can only pass on... He reaches forth beyond prohibitions, beyond natural instinct, beyond morality.”

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“Demian is an example of the artist's miraculous power of surviving a mental earthquake... It is a question of self-realization. It is not enough to accept a concept of order and live by it; that is cowardice, and such cowardice cannot result in freedom. Chaos must be faced. Real order must be preceded by a descent into chaos. This is Hesse's conclusion.”

— Colin Wilson 1931 – 2013 CE
from Outsider

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