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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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"I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance."

"But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter."

"I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain."

"I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own."
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