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"Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity."
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"But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly you can look at a thing the more entertaining you can be about it."

"Your wealth is in your talent and that is why you will be poor until you find yourself."

"There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure."

"Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better."

"Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them."
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"The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism."

"Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me."

"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."

"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."
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