Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live i…

Marcel Proust
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Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their culture broadest, but those who have had the power, ceasing in a moment to live only for themselves, to make use of their personality as of a mirror. ✨ Marcel Proust (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated), p.884, Delphi Classics
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