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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
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“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
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“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
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“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
― The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
― The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that
without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
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without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
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Amy’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Amy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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103 friends
3,919 books
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1,008 books
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3,028 books
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2,167 books
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727 books
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121 friends
689 books
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2,654 books
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158 friends
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