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You are to the Nineties what lava lamps were to the Seventies.
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, an ...
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, o ...
Often, while contemplating works of art, not in their easily perceptible materiality, in the too-clear hieroglyphs of their contou ...
Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with ...
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I s ...
... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.
The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.
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