"There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves."
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"Steady work turns genius to a loom."
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"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them anyways."
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"The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm."
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"Nature is full of genius, full of divinity."
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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor."
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"No man ever followed his genius till it misled him."
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"The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes into a decline."
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"Taste is the next gift to genius."
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"It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us."
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"To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius."
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"The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life."
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"What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim."
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"There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them."
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"Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius."
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"There are no laws by which we can write Iliads."
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"When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror."
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"When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him."
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"The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible."
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"And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius."
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