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 Edward G. BulwerLytton
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble he who writes verses builds it in granite.
Laws die Books never.
We may live without friends we may live without books But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm it moves stones it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
