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"Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."
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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."

"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."

"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."

"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."

"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."

"Genius - the pursuit of madness."

"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."

"The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated."
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"One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs."

"It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash."
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