Existential terror

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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

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Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

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Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

Carl Jung

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Jung, Carl. Psychologie un Alchemie [Psychology and Alchemy] Routledge, 1944.

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But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale

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Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. McClelland and Stewart/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985, ch. 33.

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