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"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
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"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."
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"Genius must be born, and never can be taught."
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"The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human."
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"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."
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"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!"
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"Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things."
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"If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators."
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"Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite."
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"Morality is the weakness of the brain."
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"I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there."
Hell
"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."
Life
"Life is the farce which everyone has to perform."
Life
"But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter."
Moon
"Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life."
Life
"Misfortune was my god."
God
"I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance."
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"I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own."
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"Genius is the recovery of childhood at will."
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