I could describe scenes of my childhood, spent in peaceful security at the side of father and mother,
relate how I passed this period of my life, playing contentedly in the midst of surroundings brightened by love and tenderness.
But others have done that. I am only interested in the steps I took in life, in order to attain self-realization.
All the pretty resting-places, happy isles and children’s paradises, whose charm is not unknown to me,
I leave lying behind me in the shimmer of a distant horizon, and I have no desire to set foot there again.
For that reason I will speak, so far as I intend to dwell on the period of my childhood, only of new events which overtook me,
of what impelled me forward enabling me to throw off my shackles.
These impulses always came from the “other” world, they always brought fear, coercion and a bad conscience in their train,
they were always of a revolutionary tendency and a danger to the peace in which I would willingly have been allowed to remain.
There came the years in which I had to discover anew that there was within me an instinct
which had to lie close and concealed in the bright world of moral sanction.
As to every man, the slowly awakening sense of sex came to me as an enemy and a destroyer, as something forbidden, as seduction and sin.
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