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"Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction."
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"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."
"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."
"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts, they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."
"Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way."
"A genius is a grownup that remained a kid."
"Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal."
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"Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means."
"In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason."
"I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom."
"The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough."
"If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world."
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