I had grown accustomed to living within myself. I was resigned to the knowledge that I had lost all appreciation of the outside world, that the loss of its bright colors was an inseparable part of the loss of my childhood, and that, in a certain sense, one had to pay for freedom and maturity of the soul with the renunciation of this cherished aura. But now, overjoyed, I saw that all this had only been buried or clouded over and that it was still possible � even if you had become liberated and had renounced your childhood happiness � to see the world shine and to savor the delicious thrill of the child�s vision.

Hermann Hesse, in 'Demian'

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