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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
No great genius is without an admixture of madness.
No great genius is without an admixture of madness.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there
Seduced me first to me a wicked player.
Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there
Seduced me first to me a wicked player.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more
complex. . . . It takes a touch of genius--and read more
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more
complex. . . . It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us read more
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them which we are missing.
I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.