"During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius."

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Source : Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.81, Delphi Classics

Lytton Strachey

#Trying Quotes #Quality Quotes #Genius Quotes

“In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work â€¦”
“Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government - a bureaucratic elite.”
“It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.”

Source : "Fictional character: The Once-ler". "The Lorax", 2012.
“The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.”
“What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!”
“For every mountain there is another one. The big question is if you reach the top of the mountain, what then? What do you do then? I suppose you die.”
“Like the enotmologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind.”
“I wondered what that was like, to hold someoneâ€™s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someoneâ€™s hand.”

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