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"Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training."
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"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."
"Genius is finding the invisible link between things."
"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."
"Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant."
"The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos."
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"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."
"Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities."
"When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase."
"I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."
"A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die."
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