"The curse of a genius is that while he appears to others as great, they appear to him as miserable and insignificant. The genius is forced to suppress this perception throughout his life, just as ordinary people keep their image of that genius within themselves. At the same time, a genius without equal lives as if he were in a desert or on a desert island inhabited only by monkeys and parrots. Moreover, he is always haunted by the threat of the illusion of mistaking an ape for a man. While the weaknesses of a great man cause the crowd a feeling of malice, he, on the contrary, feels pain because these weaknesses make him similar to the crowd.
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Arthur SchopenhauerAll Translations
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The curse of a genius is that while he appears to others as great, they appear to him as miserable and insignificant. The genius is forced to suppress this perception throughout his life, just as ordinary people keep their image of that genius within themselves. At the same time, a genius without equal lives as if he were in a desert or on a desert island inhabited only by monkeys and parrots. Moreover, he is always haunted by the threat of the illusion of mistaking an ape for a man. While the weaknesses of a great man cause the crowd a feeling of malice, he, on the contrary, feels pain because these weaknesses make him similar to the crowd.
""Blestemul unui geniu constă în faptul că în vreme ce altora le apare drept măreț, aceștia i se par lui drept mizerabili și neînsemnați. Această percepție, geniul este nevoit să și-o suprime pe parcursul întregii vieți, precum si oamenii de rând păstrează în sine imaginea lor despre acel geniu. În același timp, un geniu care nu-și află egal trăiește ca și cum s-ar găsi într-un deșert sau pe o insulă pustie locuită doar de maimuțe și papagali. Mai mult decât atât, îl paște mereu amenințarea iluziei de a lua o maimuță drept om. În timp ce slăbiciunile unui om mare provoacă mulțimii un sentiment de răutate, el, dimpotrivă, simte durerea datorită faptului că aceste slăbiciuni îl fac asemănător cu mulțimea."