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"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
― Oscar Levant

"No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness."
― Aristotle

"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing."
― Gertrude Stein

"Genius is the recovery of childhood at will."
― Arthur Rimbaud

"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius."
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
― E.F. Schumacher

"I'm a misunderstood genius."
"What's misunderstood?"
"Nobody thinks I'm a genius."
― Bill Watterson

"The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said."
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

"The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work."
― Kathleen Winsor

"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that
without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating."
― Pearl S. Buck

"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
― Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

"To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat."
― Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth

"The Genius Of The Crowd

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day

and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love
and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

those who preach god, need god
those who preach peace do not have peace
those who preach peace do not have love

beware the preachers
beware the knowers
beware those who are always reading books
beware those who either detest poverty
or are proud of it
beware those quick to praise
for they need praise in return
beware those who are quick to censor
they are afraid of what they do not know
beware those who seek constant crowds for
they are nothing alone
beware the average man the average woman
beware their love, their love is average
seeks average

but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody
not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art
they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world
not being able to love fully
they will believe your love incomplete
and then they will hate you
and their hatred will be perfect

like a shining diamond
like a knife
like a mountain
like a tiger
like hemlock

their finest art"
― Charles Bukowski

"Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane."
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

"When you make a choice, you change the future."
― Deepak Chopra

"When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

[Thoughts on Various Subjects]"
― Jonathan Swift , Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment."
― Claude Monet

"I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity."
― William Blake

"Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it."
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man."
― Albert Camus

"The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor."
― George Bernard Shaw

"People who boast about their I.Q. are losers."
― Stephen Hawking

"Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest."
― Mike Norton, White Mountain

"Madness is the acme of intelligence."
― Naguib Mahfouz

"To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius."
― Joyce Cary

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