"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world" - Anne Frank

“I only know what it is that’s wrong with him; not why it is.” - Mr. Emerson, pg. 30 (A Room With A View)

She reflected that it is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. - Lucy, pg. 153 (A Room With A View)

The true chivalry—not the worn-out chivalry of sex, but the true chivalry that all the young may show to all the old—… - Lucy, pg. 232 (A Room With A View)

"You're being carried along by passion. Once the fever passes, you'll feel disillusioned." - Sensei, p.29 (Kokoro)

“It’s a shame that an education just gives people the means to chop logic.” - MC’s father, pg. 84 (Kokoro)

“Egoists are worthless types. It’s sheer brazen laziness to spend your life doing nothing. A man’s talent amounts to nothing if he won’t set it to work and do all he can with it.” - MC’s brother, pg. 108 (Kokoro)

“It is to you alone that I want to tell the story of my past. Because you are sincere. You are serious in your desire to learn real lessons from life.” - Sensei, pg. 124 (Kokoro)

“Just as you can only really smell incense in the first moments after it is lit, or taste wine in that instant of the first sip, the impulse of love springs from a single, perilous moment in time, I feel.” - Sensei, pg. 132 (Kokoro)

“I believe that a commonplace idea stated with passionate conviction carries more living truth than some novel observation expressed with cool indifference.” - Sensei, pg. 136 (Kokoro)

Talking about sex “I don’t like it. ‘Cause if you do, you’re no more than male and female just like everybody else. So I hate it.” - FL (Ritual {2000})

"It is often books of small size that exert the greatest dynamic power—" - Thomas Mann (Introduction), p.x ch. Intro (Demian)

"'If only you knew' crossed my mind as I stood there like a criminal being cross-examined for a stolen loaf of bread when the actual crime was murder." - Sinclair, p.13 (Demian)

"The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too." - Sinclair, p.29 (Demian)

"We always define the limits of our personality too narrowly. In general, we count as part of our personality only that which we can recognize as being an individual trait or as diverging from the norm." - Pistorius, p.91 (Demian)

"'Well, be pure then! But I don't understand why someone is supposed to be more pure than another person if he suppresses his sexual urges. Or are you capable of eliminating sex from all your thoughts and dreams?'" - Sinclair, p.100 (Demian)

"His task was to discover his own destiny—not an arbitrary one—and live it out wholly and resolutely within himself." - Sinclair, p.111 (Demian)

"'They know exactly how many ounces of powder it takes to kill a man but they don't know how to pray to God, they don't even know how to be happy for a single contented hour.'" - Demian, p.118 (Demian)

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