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"In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others."
"I do not consider myself a literal genius."
"It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own."
"Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end."
"There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish."
"I think Pans Labyrinth is genius."
"It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel."
"The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources"
"There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal."
"Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave."
"We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up."
"Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either."
"I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child."
"Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !"
"When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him."
"Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius."
"It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude."
"One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity."
"There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius."
"The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else."
