德米安

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. （Hermann Hesse,1877-1962） “我常常幻想未来的景象，梦想自己可能会成为的角色，或许是诗人、预言者、画家等等。然而这些都不算什么。我存在的意义并不是为了写诗，预言或作画，任何人生存的意义都不应是这些。这些只是旁枝末节。对每个人而言，真正的职责只有一个：找到自我。无论他的归宿是诗人还是疯子，是先知还是罪犯——这些其实和他无关，毫不重要。他的职责只是找到自己的命运——而不是他人的命运——然后在心中坚守其一生，全心全意，永不停息。所有其它的路都是不完整的，是人的逃避方式，是对大众理想的懦弱回归，是随波逐流，是对内心的恐惧。”