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"This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius."
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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."
"The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated."
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"The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream."
"This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius."
"The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness."
"But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them."
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