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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. – Samuel Butler

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Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age. – Napoleon Bonaparte, Discours de Lyon, 1771

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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. – Louis Aragon

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Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power. – Phillips Brooks

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