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"I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring."
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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."
"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."
"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
"Genius - the pursuit of madness."
"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 for productive reaction against one's training."
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"The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell."
"To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano."
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