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The modern culture - the modernist culture of insight, pain, absurdity - owes its origin to the genius of suffering. I do not know what will happen tomorrow, but today - only they are true, sincere, absolutely honest.
№ 428056   Added Viker 27-09-2021 / 14:49
Kings, princes can get mentors, scientists and secret advisers, they can shower them with honors and orders, but they cannot create great people.
№ 428055   Added Viker 27-09-2021 / 14:49
Geniuses of suffering are always singular and timeless. Life itself makes them people without forerunners and without followers - homo unique.
№ 427885   Added Viker 27-09-2021 / 14:06
He was unusually attractive, honest, open, proud, freedom-loving, independent. He remained true to himself and never betrayed his convictions in anything. He did not envy the successes of others; he treated great contemporaries with great respect.
Quote Explanation: It is said about Hölderlin
№ 427855   Added Viker 27-09-2021 / 14:00
The main vocation of a human genius is to bring the world closer to the ideal and thus beautify life.
№ 427853   Added Viker 27-09-2021 / 14:00
Let the unfortunate people not complain too much, for the best people of all mankind are with them! Let us be strengthened by their strength, and having felt weakness, let us kneel down in front of them. They will comfort us. From their souls flows a sacred stream of harsh strength and mighty kindness.
№ 427734   Added Viker 27-09-2021 / 13:42
The tragic banality of culture: if genius, suffer.
№ 427728   Added Viker 27-09-2021 / 13:33
Who can say to the great and true: be different!
№ 427726   Added Viker 27-09-2021 / 13:33
The most exciting detectives - the intimate life of the great. Is there a genius who wouldn't be accused of immorality, perversion, hyper- or hyposexuality? A woman in the life of a genius is what an inexhaustible cesspool. And the fewer facts, the more sophisticated fabrications.
№ 427596   Added MegaMozg 16-09-2021 / 12:06
For several millennia, man has been indignant, seeing how nonentities prosper, and geniuses vegetate.
№ 427594   Added MegaMozg 16-09-2021 / 12:00
We know many examples of the school debility of geniuses, demonstrating only one thing: premature development, eccentricity.
№ 427593   Added MegaMozg 16-09-2021 / 11:57
Genius always lives between Scylla and Charybna: the consciousness of his power and the understanding of his weakness.
№ 427591   Added MegaMozg 16-09-2021 / 11:51
Do Gullivers of all times understand that only they are great, and not the goals they strive for, and not the means they use? Do they understand that achieving these goals is deadly for them? Dangerous danger to descend to the midgets.
№ 427588   Added MegaMozg 16-09-2021 / 11:42
Each generation rewrites history, distorting it to conform to its doctrines. The doctrine is more absurd - more distortions. Same with genius.
№ 427582   Added MegaMozg 16-09-2021 / 11:24
Unable to change the world, realizing the impossibility of change, he used the right of a genius to condemn him.
Quote Explanation: It's Told About John Donne
№ 427581   Added MegaMozg 16-09-2021 / 11:21