An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelAbout author
- Author's profession: Poet
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: March 10, 1772
- Died: January 12, 1829
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When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does...
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