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    But whereas we, in our conception, represented the will of nature to renew itself, to individualize and march forward, the others lived in the desire for the perpetuation of things as they are. For them humanity—which they loved as we did—was something complete that must be maintained and protected. For us humanity was a distant goal towards which we were marching, whose image no one yet know, whose laws were nowhere written down.

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    Aquel que sólo quiere su destino no tiene ya modelos ni ideales, amores ni consuelos. Tal es el camino que realmente debería uno seguir.

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    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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    But where we have given of our love and respect not from habit but of our own free will, where we have been children and friends from our inmost heart, it is a bitter and terrible moment when we suddenly recognize that our natural tendency is bound to lead us away from the people we love.

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    I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.

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    There is no reality except the one contained within us.

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    All I wanted was to try and realize whatever was in me. Why was that so difficult?

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    Desde criança, sempre me agradava contemplar as formas estranhas da natureza, não como observador que investiga, mas abandonando-me apenas ao seu encanto peculiar, à sua profunda e complexa linguagem.

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    However, one can study someone very closely and then one can often know almost exactly what he thinks or feels and thenone can also anticipate what he will do the next moment. It's simple enough, only people don't know it.

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    İçimde dışarı çıkmak isteyen bir şey vardı ve ben onu yaşamaya çalışıyordum yalnızca.Neden böylesine güçtü bu?

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    I had often toyed with pictures of the future, dreamed of rôles which might be assigned to me—as a poet, maybe, or prophet or painter or kindred vocation. All that was futile. I was not there to write poetry, to preach or paint; neither I nor any other man was there for that purpose. They were only incidental things. There was only one true vocation for everybody—to find the way to himself. He might end as poet, lunatic, prophet or criminal—that was not his affair; ultimately it was of no account. His affair was to discover his own destiny, not something of his own choosing, and live it out wholly and resolutely within himself.

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    Even as a child I had had at intervals a fondness for observing strange forms in nature, not so much examining them as surrendering myself to their magic, their oblique message. Long tree-roots, coloured veins in rock, patches of oil floating on water, flaws in glass—all such things had a certain fascination for me, above all, water and fire, smoke, clouds, dust and expecially the swirling specks of colour which swam before my closed eyes.

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    I still believed firmly in chance at that time.

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    I saw Demian's face and remarked that it was not a boy's face but a man's and then I saw, or rather became aware, that it was not really the face of a man either; it had something different about it, almost a feminine element. And for the time being his face seemed neither masculine nor childish, neither old nor young but a hundred years old, almost timeless and bearing the mark of other periods of history than our own.

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    Lo que esto significa, un ser vivo, se sabe hoy menos que nunca, y por eso se destruye a montones de seres humanos, cada uno de los cuales es una creación valiosa y única de la naturaleza. Si no fuéramos algo más que seres únicos, sería fácil hacernos desaparecer del mundo con una bala de fusil, y entonces no tendría sentido contar historias. Pero cada hombre no es solamente él; también es el punto único y especial, en todo caso importante y curioso, donde, una vez y nunca más, se cruzan los fenómenos del mundo de una manera singular. Por eso la historia de cada hombre, mientras viva y cumpla la voluntad de la naturaleza, es admirable y digna de toda atención.

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    Mira, todos los hombres son capaces de hacer lo increíble cuando están amenazados sus ideales. Pero ninguno está dispuesto cuando se presenta un nuevo ideal, un nuevo movimiento de expansión quizá peligroso y misterioso.

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    My conscious self lived within the familiar and sanctioned world, it denied the new world that dawned within me.

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    ... E por que têm medo? Só se tem medo quando não se está de acordo consigo mesmo. Têm medo porque jamais se atreveram a perseguir seus próprios impulsos interiores. Uma comunidade formada por indivíduos atemorizados com o desconhecido que levam dentro de si.

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    ¿No irá usted a creer que todos esos bípedos que andan por la calle son hombre sólo porque anden derechos y lleven a sus crías nueve meses dentro de sí? Muchos de ellos son peces u ovejas, gusano o ángeles; otros son hormigas, y otros abejas. En cada uno existen las posibilidades de ser hombre; pero sólo cuando las vislumbra, cuando aprende a hacerlas conscientes, por lo menos en parte, estas posibilidades le pertenecen.

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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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    Pero cada uno de los hombres no es tan solo él mismo; es también un punto único, particularismo, importante siempre y singular, en el que se cruzan los fenómenos del Mundo, sólo una vez de aquel modo y nunca más.

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    Permanecí largo rato mirándole, y sentí entonces, lejos aún en mi subconsciente, algo muy singular. Vi que el rostro de Demian no solamente era el de un muchacho, sino el de un hombre, pero me pareció ver todavía algo más: era como si en él hubiera también algo de un rostro de una mujer, y además, por un instante, aquel rostro no me pareció ya viril o infantil, maduro o joven, sino, en cierto modo, milenario; en cierto modo, fuera del tiempo, marcado por edades distintas a la que nosotros vivimos. Los animales pueden presentar ese aspecto, o los árboles, o las estrellas. Yo no lo sabía. No sentí exactamente por entonces esto que ahora describo; pero sí algo semejante. Tampoco supe en forma clara si la figura de Demian me atraía o me repelía. Sólo vi que era distinto de nosotros, que era como un animal, o como un espíritu, o como una pintura; pero distinto, extrañamente distinto de todos nosotros.

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    Pero en los casos en los que no ha sido costumbre sino el más íntimo impulso el que nos ha llevado a ofrecer amor y veneración, cuando hemos sido discípulos y amigos de todo corazón, el momento de reconocer que la corriente dominante en nosotros se aparta de la persona querida es amargo y terrible.

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    She rose to her feet and preceded me into the garden twilight. Tall and queenly, the woman of mystery strolled among the silent trees and above her head the myriad stars glowed tenderly.

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    That is the way the leaves fall round an autumn  tree; it is unaware of it, rain runs down it, it is subjected to sun or frost and life slowly retreats. It does not die. It waits.

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    The surrender to Nature's irrational, strangely confused formations produces in us a feeling of inner harmony with the force responsible for these phenomena. We soon fall prey to the temptation of thinking of them as being our own moods, our own creations, and see the boundaries separating us from Nature begin to quiver and dissolve. We become acquainted with that state of mind in which we are unable to decide whether the images on our retina are the result of impressions coming from without or from within. Nowhere as in this exercise can we discover so easily and so simply to what extent we are creative, to what extent our soul partakes of the constant creation of the world. For it is the same indivisible divinity that is active through us and in Nature, and if the outside world were to be destroyed, a single one of us would be capable of rebuilding it: mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and flower, yes, every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.

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    Ya sé que muchos no creerán que un niño de casi once años pueda sentir esto. Para ellos no escribo mi historia: se la cuento a los que conocen mejor al ser humano. El hombre adulto, que ha aprendido a convertir una parte de sus sentimientos en pensamientos, echa de menos éstos en el niño y cree que las vivencias tampoco han existido. Pero yo no he sentido nunca en mi vida nada tan profundamente, ni he sufrido nunca tato como entonces.

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    Não há porque te compares com os demais, e se a natureza te criou para morcego, não deves aspirar ser avestruz. às vezes te consideras por demais esquisito e te reprovas por seguires caminhos diversos dos da maioria. Deixa-te disso. Contempla o fogo, as nuvens e quando surgirem presságios e as vozes soarem em tua alma abandona-te a elas sem perguntares se isso convém.

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    There's something to walking with autumnal thoughts through the evening fog. One likes to compose poems at a time like that.

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    Y no interesa los caminos que tome, lo que debe preocuparnos es si al final surgirá la luz auténtica en el alma, esa que ha estado dormida y engañada por millones de años (...) Las pocas personas marcadas, como Caín, provocamos miedo entre los seres humanos de mentes estrechas. Todo hombre que ha trabajado sobre el camino de la humanidad, lo ha hecho porque su destino no estaba distante.

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