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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 is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."
"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts, they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."
"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."
"A genius is a grownup that remained a kid."
"Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal."
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"I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."
"Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities."
"A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die."
"When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase."
"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."
"Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine."
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