"Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality."
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"We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence."
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"As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me."
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"Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius."
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"M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull."
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"this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night"
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"There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty."
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"Giving calls for genius."
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"Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism."
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"I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius."
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"He [Castro] is a genius. We spoke about everything."
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"The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius."
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"The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer."
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"Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy."
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"The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother of genius. Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. And of making others appreciate it."
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"Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works."
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"There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent."
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"[In 2011 on Steve Jobs] He was the most amazing person I have ever know. He was a genius. He was an innovator. He was the best client we ever had. He was my friend."
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"The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them."
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"Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love."
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