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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.
I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.
Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until my youngest child went to school, and then I began - the first morning - and I've never stopped.
I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.