“So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans.”
                                        
                                        Letter to Carl Fuchs (14 December 1887) 
Context: So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.