"Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child."
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"Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease."
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"The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius."
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"God is the poetic genius in each of us."
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"You're a genius! And the proof is that both common people and intellectuals find your work completely incoherent."
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"When I wrote 'My Humps,' I said, 'This is the stupidest thing ever,' but in a good way. I always wondered what it must be like to be a girl, always gettin' pulled on. Maybe she's the smartest genius on the planet, but she's rackin' double Ds with a 26-inch waist and a big ol' ass and no one's ever gonna see her like that because that's the way the world is today."
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"Talent imitates, but genius steals."
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"His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own."
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"Genius is its own end."
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"If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him."
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"It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also."
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"The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself."
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"Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think."
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"For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture."
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"The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct."
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"Genius has no taste for weaving sand."
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"When the gods come among men, they are not known."
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"Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds."
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"The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius."
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"There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society."
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