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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Age: 57 †
Born: 1772
Born: January 1
Died: 1829
Died: January 11
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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