"I have experienced in my body and soul that sin has been very useful to me, pleasure, longing for possession, vanity, and even the most shameful despair have been useful to me, so that I can learn to give up my opposition, learn to love the world, so that I no longer measure something that I want, to the world I imagined, to the perfection I imagined, but to be satisfied with it now, to love it as it is, and to be happy that I am a part of it.
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Hermann HesseAll Translations
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I have experienced in my body and soul that sin has been very useful to me, pleasure, longing for possession, vanity, and even the most shameful despair have been useful to me, so that I can learn to give up my opposition, learn to love the world, so that I no longer measure something that I want, to the world I imagined, to the perfection I imagined, but to be satisfied with it now, to love it as it is, and to be happy that I am a part of it.
""Testemen-lelkemen megtapasztaltam, hogy nagyon is hasznomra vált a bűn, hasznomra vált a gyönyör, a birtoklás óhajtása, a hiúság, sőt a legszégyenletesebb kétségbeesés is, hogy megtanuljam feladni ellenkezésemet, megtanuljam a világot szeretni, hogy ne mérjem többé valamely, általam kívánt, általam elképzelt világhoz, az általam kigondolt tökéletességhez, hanem megelégedjem vele már most, szeressem úgy, ahogy van, és örüljek, hogy része vagyok."