Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.
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PrefaceStanislaw Lem
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The ordinary man casts a shadow. In a way we do not quite understand, the man of genius casts light. Instinctively, we flinch from this light. We assure ourselves that genius must pay a terrible price. Often history bears us out: the creator, the supreme artist, the master of politics carries the scars of his greatness.
George Steiner
Finally the light rested down upon and overwhelmed him in the midst of it, and his mind at the same time seemed to be caught away from surrounding objects, and he saw nothing excepting the light and two glorious personages standing before him in the midst of this light. One of these personages, pointing to the other, said-"Behold my beloved Son, hear ye him."
Orson Pratt
From some, the light was scarcely more than a gloom:
From some, a dazzling desire.Conrad Aiken
And yet, through the gloom and the light,
The fate of a nation was riding that night.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
Jose Rizal
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