Genius is finding the invisible link between things.

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Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

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It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

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...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.

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I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling

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There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.

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Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.

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Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.

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Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.

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