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"Genius is one of the many forms of insanity."
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"What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around."

"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."

"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."

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

"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."

"Genius - the pursuit of madness."

"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."

"Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training."
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"The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities."
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