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Demian · 1919

★ 1.1

Novel · Coming of age story

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 1.3

Novel · Coming of age story

I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations · 1860

★ 1.3

Novel · Coming of age story

No man has ever been entirely and completely himself. Yet each one strives to become that-one in an awkward, the other in a more intelligent way, each as best he can.

Hermann Hesse

Demian · 1919

★ 1.8

Novel · Coming of age story

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

Hermann Hesse

Demian · 1919

★ 1.9

Novel · Coming of age story

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Hermann Hesse

Demian · 1919

★ 1.9

Novel · Coming of age story

You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.

Hermann Hesse

Demian · 1919

★ 1.9

Novel · Coming of age story

I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 2.2

Novel · Coming of age story

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations · 1861

★ 2.2

Novel · Coming of age story

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching… I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations · 1861

★ 2.2

Novel · Coming of age story

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations · 1861

★ 2.2

Novel · Coming of age story

Trifles make the sum of life.

Charles Dickens

The Personal History of David Copperfield · 1850

★ 2.3

Novel · Coming of age story

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.

Hermann Hesse

Demian · 1919

★ 3.5

Novel · Coming of age story

Love must not entreat... Or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

Hermann Hesse

Demian · 1919

★ 3.5

Novel · Coming of age story

I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.

Hermann Hesse

Demian · 1919

★ 3.5

Novel · Coming of age story

Love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Hermann Hesse

Peter Camenzind · 1904

★ 3.5

Novel · Coming of age story

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

Hermann Hesse

Demian · 1919

★ 3.5

Novel · Coming of age story

One never reaches home... But wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Hermann Hesse

Demian · 1919

★ 3.5

Novel · Coming of age story

My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 3.7

Novel · Coming of age story

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1848

★ 3.7

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