Before that I practised a vice, you know what. You have never been with a woman, then?”
“No,” I said. “I haven’t found the right one.” “But if you should find her, the one you consider the right one, then would you sleep with her?”
“Yes, naturally. If she had nothing against it,” I said with some scorn.
“Oh, then you are on a false track! One can only perfect one’s inner forces if one remains entirely continent.
I have done it, for two whole years. Two years and a little more than a month! It’s so hard. Often I can scarcely hold out any longer.”
“Listen, Knauer, I don’t believe that continency is so terribly important.”
“I know,” he parried, “they all say that. But I did not expect to hear it from you.
Whoever will go the higher spiritual way must remain pure, unconditionally!”
“Well, then, do so! But I don’t understand why one man should be purer than another, because he represses his sex instincts.
Or can you switch off all sexual matters from your thoughts and dreams?”
He looked despairingly at me. “No, that’s just it. God! and yet it must be.
At night I have dreams which I couldn’t relate even to myself. Terrible dreams, terrible!”
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