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Gustave Flaubert

"Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force."

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Donna Grant

"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."

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Donna Grant

"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."

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Donna Grant

"Out there, there is some kinda genius person... I am talking about Sherlock Holmes... First very fast talking + in the same full of knowledge."

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Donna Grant

"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."

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Donna Grant

"A genius is a grownup that remained a kid."

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Donna Grant

"Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal."

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Donna Grant

"The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas."

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Donna Grant

"In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still."

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Donna Grant

"One who knows what he or she knows as well as what he or she does not know is a genius."

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Donna Grant

"Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble."

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Gustave Flaubert
"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

Man

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Gustave Flaubert
"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."

Faith

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Gustave Flaubert
"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

Being

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Gustave Flaubert
"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."

Happiness

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Gustave Flaubert
"The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family."

Family

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Gustave Flaubert
"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."

Art

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Gustave Flaubert
"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly."

Love

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Gustave Flaubert
"Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying."

Life

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Gustave Flaubert
"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

Music

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Gustave Flaubert
"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."

Existence

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