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Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify

Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Time
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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Faith
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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Other Quotes from
Thunderstorms
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It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand. – American Indian Proverb

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Since I was man,
Such sheets of fire, such bursts of torrid thunder
Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never
Remember to have heard. – William Shakespeare

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Thunderstorms

My mother, who hates thunderstorms,
Holds up each summer day and shakes
It out suspiciously, lest swarms
Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there…. – Philip Larkin

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Thunderstorms

It was getting dark so suddenly that Alice thought there must be a thunderstorm coming on. What a thick black cloud that is! she said.
And how fast it comes! Why I do believe its got wings! – Lewis Carroll

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Thunderstorms

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