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"I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him."
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"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."
"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."
"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!"
"Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things."
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"Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth."
"Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up."
"To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be."
"To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine."
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