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.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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Oscar Levant
It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Gertrude Stein
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.
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Carl Sagan
For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and loneliness, an all-encompassing distaste for which he could not find the complementary inclination. He felt at times as though he had been born...
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Robert Musil
More Quotes By Charles Baudelaire
The beautiful is always bizarre.
What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
Inspiration comes of working every day.
And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!
