Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passers-by to drop their unused minutes into it.
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The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows
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Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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