There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills, but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. - Victor Hugo Genius is childhood recalled at will. - Charles Baudelaire The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. - Louis Aragon I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. - Vladimir Nabokov To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. - Vladimir Nabokov
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