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Mon 14 Feb 2022

Chance

Posted by PJ under chance, feelings, genius, quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“The first thing for a writer to learn is the art of transposing what he feels into what he wants to make others feel. The first few times he succeeds by chance. But then talent must take the place of chance. Hence there is an element of chance at the root of genius.”

—Albert Camus, Notebooks 1942-1952 (tr. Justin O’Brien)

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Tue 1 Jun 2021

Canned

Posted by PJ under academia, genius, quote of the day
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“We mustn’t forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.”

—Saul Bellow, Herzog

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Mon 29 Oct 2018

Ruined

Posted by PJ under failure, genius, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.”

—Samuel Johnson, letter to Joseph Baretti, December 21, 1762

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Wed 26 Jul 2017

Unlimited

Posted by PJ under genius, quote of the day, stupidity
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Random quote of the day:

“What distresses me is to see that human genius has limits and human stupidity none.”

—Alexandre Dumas, fils, quoted in The Great Universal Dictionary of the Nineteenth Century, 1865

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Thu 1 Oct 2015

Recovered

Posted by PJ under art, genius, growing up, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Genius is only childhood recovered at will, childhood now gifted to express itself with the faculties of manhood and with the analytic mind that allows him to give order to the heap of unwittingly hoarded material.”

—Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life

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Tue 11 Aug 2015

St. Mediocre

Posted by PJ under genius, mediocrity, quote of the day
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“In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.”

—Robert Green Ingersoll, “Liberty in Literature”

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Thu 25 Jun 2015

Soledad

Posted by PJ under conversations, genius, quote of the day, solitude
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Random quote of the day:

“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”

—Sir Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Wed 11 Dec 2013

Genio

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“Between the psychology of the man of genius and the pathology of the insane, there are many points of coincidence; there is even continuity.”

—Cesare Lombroso, The Man of Genius, 1895

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Wed 8 Aug 2012

Dangerous curves

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“Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.”

—William Blake, “Proverbs of Hell,” The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

 

 


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Tue 18 Jan 2011

Ideation

Posted by PJ under art, genius, ideas, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”

—Eugène Delacroix, diary, May 15, 1824

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