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"I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?"
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"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"
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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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"Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?"
"One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled."
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