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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
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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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"Out there, there is some kinda genius person... I am talking about Sherlock Holmes... First very fast talking + in the same full of knowledge."
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"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."
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"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."
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"There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling."
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"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
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"Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable."
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"For 37 years I've practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius."
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"Taste is the common sense of genius."
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Explore more quotes by Victor Hugo
"Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray."
Faith
"When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar."
Love
"It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie."
Integrity
"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"
Virtue
"The life of the cenobite is a human problem. When we speak of convents, those seats of error but innocence, of mistaken views but good intentions, of ignorance but devotion, of torment but martyrdom, we must nearly always say yes or no...The monastery is a renunciation. Self-sacrifice, even when misdirected, is still self-sacrifice. To assume as duty a strict error has its peculiar grandeur."
Spiritual
"What a grand thing to be loved! What a grander thing still to lovel."
Love
"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."
God
"Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty."
Curiosity
"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
Man
"God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art."
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