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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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"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."
Difficulty
"Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve."
People
"Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen."
Birthday
"There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas."
People
"Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with."
Power
"There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer."
Idea
"It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering."
Suffering
"Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them."
Saying
"Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left."
History
"Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead."
Genius
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