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"Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training."
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"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."
"Genius - the pursuit of madness."
"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
"Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius."
"Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60."
"There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people."
"Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them."
"It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention."
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"A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die."
"Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine."
"I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."
"From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy."
"You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature."
"When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase."
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