Was von dem rein sinnlichen Trieb des Knaben-Jünglings darin lag, war durch das Eingreifen der Phantasie umgeformt worden, zu etwas gewandelt, das dem Jüngling selbst frei von Sinnlichkeit schien und gerade darum umso gefährlicher war.
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Whatever of the boy's purely sensual drive lay within it had been transformed by the intervention of his imagination, changed into something that seemed to the youth himself to be free of sensuality and was all the more dangerous for that very reason.
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