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"To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius."
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"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."
"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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"Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more."
"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."
"Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin."
"Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false."
"In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared."
"Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest."
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