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"I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that."
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"All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience."
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"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."
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"Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!"
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"As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius."
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"The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal."
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"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."
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"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."
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"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."
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"If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write."
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"Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash."
Life
"Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?"
Knowledge
"We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later."
Nature
"Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized."
Religion
"Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work."
Imagination
"There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses."
Flowers
"Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd."
Love
"I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style."
Thought
"O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself."
Dream
"The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later."
Genius
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