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"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."

"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."

"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."

"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."

"A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it."

"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."

"Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it."

"I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?"
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"The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting."


"Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay, let's calm down. It's not the kind of energy I want to have in life. I want to go slower, and longer."
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