Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse
BorisVM "I did not exist to write poems, to preach or to paint, neither I nor anyone else. All of that was incidental. Each man had only one genuine vocation--to find the way to himself. He might end up as poet or madman, as prophet or criminal--that was not his affair, ultimately it was of no concern. His task was to discover his own destiny--not an arbitrary one--and live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness. " Demian
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"Postoi golema razlika megju toa dali svetot samo go nosite vo sebe, ili dali toa I go znaete! Nekoj ludak moze da izgovori misli koi potsetuvaat na Platon, a nekoe malo pobozhno ucheniche vo Hernhutskiot seminar razmisluva tvorechki za istite dlaboki mitoloshki povrzanosti shto se javuvaat kaj gnosticharite ili kaj Zoroaster. Megjutoa, toj za toa ne znae nishto! Toj e drvo ili kamen, vo najdobar sluchaj zhivotno, se dodeka toa ne go znae. No koga kje svetne prvata iskra na toa soznanie, togash stanuva chovek. Verojatno nema da gi smetate za lugje site tie dvonoshci koi se dvizat po ulicite, samo zatoa shto odat ispraveno ili shto svoite novorodenchinja gi nosat po devet meseci? Pa vie gledate kolku od niv se ribi, ili ovci, crvi ili pijavici, kolku se mravki, kolku se pcheli! Samo, vo sekoj od niv postoi mozhnost da se rodi chovek, no duri togash koga toj kje gi naseti tie mozhnosti, duri togash koga kje nauchi da gi napravi delumno svesni, duri togash tie se negova spostvenost."
Demian Cogitationis poenam nemo patitur...