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"Every true genius is bound to be naive."
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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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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
"Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair."
"It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in."
"Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men."
"There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny."
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