"Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them."
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"Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom."
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"Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness."
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"It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace."
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"What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another."
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"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored."
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"The true genius shudders at incompleteness."
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"Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced."
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"The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental."
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"A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity."
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"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."
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"The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds."
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"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which."
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"Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius."
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"Bob has never written a bad song. Bob Dylan is a genius."
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"I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession."
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"Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine."
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"The genius must have his freedom and his independence."
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"Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either."
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"We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone."
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