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“There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life.”

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Hesse wrote Demian in 1919, a Bildungsroman about a boy breaking out of the conventional world his family has built for him. The sentence appears in the middle of the novel, in the voice of the mysterious Demian.

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