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"Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien."
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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."
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"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."
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"Ah, Senor Zhang," Leo said, "you know how you're always saying, 'Leo, you are the only true genius among demigods'?""I'm pretty sure I never said that."
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"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
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"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
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"Genius - the pursuit of madness."
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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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"Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite."
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"Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training."
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"Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth."
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"Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away."
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"We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives."
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"So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born."
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"Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors."
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