“Talent does what it can: Genius does what it must.”
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician
“Genius must be born, and never can be taught.”
Epistle to Congreve (1693), line 60.
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“Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.”
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Last Words, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.”
Charles Bukowski book Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Source: Notes of a Dirty Man (Zápisky starého prasáka)
Simone de Beauvoir book The Second Sex
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Source: The Second Sex (1949)
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Letters, etc
“Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.”
Isaac D'Israeli (1766–1848) British writer
Solitude.
Curiosities of Literature (1791–1834)
“Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Isaac D'Israeli, The Curiosities of Literature, "Solitude".
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