"In many ways, Lagarde with his tempestuous moods had remained a child, wounded, frightened, craving the affectionate recognition of others, yet so fearful of losing his independence that he rebuffed and insulted the very friends he sought."
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Frtiz Stern, The Politics of Cultural Despair (1961), p. 26
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Paul de Lagarde
1827 – 1891
deutscher Orientalist und Kulturphilosoph
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