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"Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training."
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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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"From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy."
"I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."
"You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature."
"Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine."
"A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die."
"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."
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