#great genius

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more. ↗

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. ↗

— Aristotle

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The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities. ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

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I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level. ↗

— Michel Gondry

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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. ↗

— Seneca

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I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

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