#genius

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

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A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull. ↗

— Louis Auchincloss

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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Genius is childhood recalled at will. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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Everyone around me says, You're a genius! You're great! That's your voice! But I'm not sure if they're right. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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