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Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.