“. . . You have often complained to me that people “don’t understand you”! Goethe and Newton did not complain of that. . . . Only Christ complained of it, but He was speaking of His doctrine and not of Himself. . . . People understand you perfectly well. And if you do not understand yourself, it is not their fault.”
Letter of Anton Chekhov to his brother Nikolay (Moscow, Mart 1886)
in my hands 
Oooh, what a riposte!