"Worauf bin ich stolz und darf ich stolz seyn als Künstler?Auf den Entschluss, der mich auf ewig von (29) allem Gemeinen absonderte und isolirte."
— Friedrich Schlegel

January 1, 1970

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What am I proud of, and what can I be proud of as an artist? Of the decision that separated and isolated me forever from everything ordinary. — “Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 136