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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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"The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated."
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"Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life."
Life
"The age of the book is almost gone."
Age
"Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent."
Man
"The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light."
Genius
"To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war."
Peace
"Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence."
Language
"There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness."
Cultural
"The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform."
Vision
"The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion."
Life
"We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning."
Work
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