德米安

我就像一棵秋天的树，树叶从它身边飘落，但它毫无知觉，雨水从它一旁滴落，还有太阳和严寒，生命已缓缓缩进了它内部最私密幽深之处。它没有死，它在等待。

前往伊斯特兰的旅程

“你要学习刻意地暴露和收敛，”他说，“你现在的情形是，你总是在那里不自觉地暴露自己，使自己容易被得到。”

错不在我

在50多年前出版的名著《偏见的本质》一书中，社会心理学家戈登·奥尔波特描述了一个持有偏见的人在面对与其看法相矛盾的证据时所做出的反应的特征：X先生：犹太人的麻烦在于他们只是关心自己的团体。 Y先生：但是从社区捐助活动的记录来看，他们是比较慷慨的。与非犹太人相比，这些犹太人在社区慈善事业中显得更为慷慨，他们捐助的数额远多于他们的人口数量。 X先生：这表明他们总是邀宠，而且总是干预教会事务。除了金钱以外，他们什么都不在乎。所以会有那么多的犹太人银行家。Y先生：但最近一项研究表明，从事银行业的犹太人是微不足道的，其比例远远低于非犹太人。X先生：的确如此，他们不会去从事那些受人尊敬的行业。他们只会去搞电影业，或者经营夜总会。

自深深处

You admired my work when it was finished: you enjoyed the brilliant successes of my first nights, and the brilliant banquets that followed them: you were proud, and quite naturally so, of being the intimate friend of an artist so distinguished: but you could not understand the conditions requisite for the production of artistic work. I am not speaking in phrases of rhetorical exaggeration but in terms of absolute truth to actual fact when I remind you that during the whole time we were together I never wrote one single line. Whether at Torquay, Goring, London, Florence or elsewhere, my life, as long as you were by my side, was entirely sterile and uncreative. And with but few intervals you were, I regret to say, by my side always.