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Friedrich Nietzsche 655
German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl… 1844–1900Related quotes
“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”
J’ai mis tout mon génie dans ma vie; je n’ai mis que mon talent dans mes œuvres.
Conversation with André Gide in Algiers, quoted in letter by Gide to his mother (30 January 1895); popularized by Gide and often subsequently quoted in Gide’s later work and in "Gide, André (1869-1951)" at Standing Ovations http://www.mr-oscar-wilde.de/about/g/gide.htm; the conversation was again recalled in Gide’s journal of (3 July 1913), quoted in “André Gide’s ‘Hommage à Oscar Wilde’ or ‘The Tale of Judas’”, Victoria Reid (University of Glasgow, UK), Chapter 5 in [Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe], edited by Stefano Evangelista (8 July 2010) part of a Continuum series The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe, ISBN 978-1-84706005-1, pp. 98–99 http://books.google.com/books?id=-oBmdCTSJ5IC&pg=PA98#v=onepage&q=%22I%20put%20all%20my%20genius%22, also footnote 6 (p. 99), quoting 1996 edition of Gide’s journal, pp. 746–47]
“Those who have doubted my veracity have paid a compliment to my genius.”
"A Dissertation concerning the Poems of Ossian", in The Poems of Ossian (1773), Vol. II, p. ix
“Valkyrie: “You are such a moron.”
Skulduggery: “Don't be jealous of my genius.”
Source: Skulduggery Pleasant
“I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!”
BKV on War of the Worlds http://www.bkv.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3002
“Just take my word for it, will you? Assume I’m a genius.”
Grendel (p. 248)
Short fiction, Neutron Star (1968)
On the death of his friend John Chute (1776)
As quoted in The National Trust Magazine, Spring 2011, p. 09