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Perhaps genius alone understands genius fully. (Sometimes translated as: Perhaps only genius fully understands genius)

— Robert Schumann

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Original: Vielleicht versteht nur der Genius den Genius ganz, Robert Schumann, Advice to Young Musicians, translation of Musikalische Haus- und Lebens-Regeln, translated by Henry Hugo Pierson, Leipsic & New York: J. Schuberth & Co., 1860.

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