“When associating with scholars and artists we easily miscalculate in opposite directions: behind a remarkable scholar one finds, not infrequently, a mediocre man, and behind a mediocre artist quite often—a very remarkable man.”

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche (Walter Kaufmann transl.)

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