Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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Everyone in a crowd has the power to throw dirt 9 out of 10 have the inclination.
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His thoughts did not seem to come with labour and effort but as if borne on gusts of genius, and as if the wings of his imagination lifted him off from his feet. . . . His mind was clothed with wings and raised on them, he lifted philosophy to heaven.
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Actors are the only honest hypocrites. Their life is a voluntary dream and the height of their ambition is to be beside themselves. They wear the livery of other men's fortunes their very thoughts are not their own.
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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
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Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.
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