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"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."
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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."

"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."

"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."

"Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable."

"Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."
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"Should we try to account for all the gifts of life there would be no time for distress and uneasiness."

"When someone is vicious toward you they are giving you a glimpse of the pain they carry in themselves."

"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."
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