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"The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature."
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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."
"What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around."
"Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos."
"Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way."
"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."
"There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling."
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"Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind."
"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain."
"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."
"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."
"Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony."
"There are four kinds of readers. The first is like the hourglass; and their reading being as the sand, it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second is like the sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third is like a jelly bag, allowing all that is pure to pass away, and retaining only the refuse and dregs. And the fourth is like the slaves in the diamond mines of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, retain only pure gems."
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