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"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."
Friendship
"It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering."
Suffering
"Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left."
History
"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."
Difficulty
"There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer."
Idea
"Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead."
Genius
"Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them."
Saying
"One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."
Knowledge
"Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve."
People
"There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas."
People
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"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."
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"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."
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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
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"Out there, there is some kinda genius person... I am talking about Sherlock Holmes... First very fast talking + in the same full of knowledge."
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"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."
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"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts, they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
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"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."
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"If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators."
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"Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way."
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"A genius is a grownup that remained a kid."
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