"Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available."
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"Genius is of no country."
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"Taste is the feminine of genius."
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"Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles."
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"Every true genius is bound to be naive."
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"A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?"
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"PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry."
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"If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius."
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"Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person."
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"In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius."
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"Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot."
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"alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see."
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"Talent borrows, genius steals!"
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"Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about."
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"The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less."
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"There is no element of genius without some form of madness."
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"Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire."
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"You don't disrupt genius at work."
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"Every genius thinks INWARDLY toward his Mind instead of outwardly toward his senses"
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"My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them."
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