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"What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around."
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"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."
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"Ah, Senor Zhang," Leo said, "you know how you're always saying, 'Leo, you are the only true genius among demigods'?""I'm pretty sure I never said that."
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"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
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"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
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"Genius - the pursuit of madness."
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"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."
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"Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite."
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"Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training."
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"I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be."
Now
"I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book."
Reading
"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."
Truth
"Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest."
Criticism
"I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him."
Music
"There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong."
Risk
"It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls."
Education
"Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things."
Literature
"One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep."
Interest
"I love devils."
Love
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