"Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine."
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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"An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.“
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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