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Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
English (Source)
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.