-Yo te gusto- continuó ella-, por el motivo que ya te he dicho; he roto tu soledad, te he recogido precisamente ante la puerta del infierno y te he despertado de nuevo. Pero quiero de ti más, mucho más. Quiero hacer que te enamores de mí. No, no me contradigas, déjame hablar. Te gusto mucho, de eso me doy cuenta, y tú me estas agradecido, pero enamorado de mí no lo estás. Yo voy a hacer que lo estés, esto pertenece a mi profesión; como que vivo de eso, de poder hacer que los hombres se enamoren de mí. Pero entérate bien: no hago esto porque te encuentre francamente encantador. No estoy enamorada como tú de mí. Pero te necesito, como tú me necesitas. Tú me necesitas actualmente, de momento, porque estás desesperado y te hace falta un impulso que te eche el agua y te vuelva a reanimar. Me necesitas para aprender a bailar, para aprender a reír, para aprender a vivir. Yo, en cambio, también te necesito a ti, no hoy, más adelante, para algo muy importante y hermoso. Te daré mi última orden cuando estés enamorado de mí, y tú obedecerás, y ello será bueno para ti y para mi.
No te ha de ser cosa fácil, pero lo harás, cumplirás mi mandato y me matarás. Eso es todo. No preguntes más nada.
Tags: love
always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, whether my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.
Hermann HesseTags: inspirational
My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.
Hermann HesseTags: inspirational
I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.
Hermann HesseOften it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
Hermann HesseTags: love
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
Hermann HesseTags: mind
I have always been a great dreamer. In dreams I have always been more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of my health and energy.
Hermann HesseI would traverse not once more, but often the hell of my inner being. One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too.
Hermann HesseTags: steppenwolf
What you call passion is not a spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. Where passion dominates, that does not signify the presence of greater desire and ambition, but rather the misdirection of these qualities toward and isolated and false goal, with a consequent tension and sultriness in the atmosphere. Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen. In argument, for example, they will not shout or wave their arms. But, I assure you, they are nevertheless, burning with subdued fires.
Hermann HessePeople know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.
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