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"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius."
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"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
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"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."
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"Genius must be born, and never can be taught."
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"The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human."
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"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."
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"Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forget the human stupidity in particular!"
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"Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things."
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"If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators."
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"Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite."
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"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius."
Genius
"Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes."
Books
"I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being."
Friendship
"My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India."
Love
"It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work."
Work
"The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness."
Beginning
"History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
History
"The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event."
Performance
"Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking."
Education
"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book."
Habit
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