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robot3 июля 2013 г.Читать далее'Surely genius is a very rare thing!'
'Rare! the world simply swarms with it. But before you can bottle it up in a book it's got to be articulate. Just for a single instant imagine yourself Falstaff, and if there weren't hundreds of Falstaffs in every generation, to be examples of his ungodly life, he'd be as dead as a doornail to-morrow—imagine yourself Falstaff, and being so, sitting down to write "Henry IV," or "The Merry Wives." It's simply preposterous. You wouldn't be such a fool as to waste the time. A mere Elizabethan scribbler comes along with a gift of expression and an observant eye, lifts the bloated old tippler clean out of life, and swims down the ages as the greatest genius the world has ever seen. Whereas, surely, though you mustn't let me bore you with all this piffle, it's Falstaff is the genius, and W. S. merely a talented reporter.'1211- robot3 июля 2013 г.
'I haven't thought or read for years.'
'No, nor I; after thirty, my dear boy, one merely annotates, and the book's called Life.'1168 - robot3 июля 2013 г.
'After all, what is every man?' he talked on; 'a horde of ghosts—like a Chinese nest of boxes—oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front'
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"Here lie ye bones of one, Nicholas Sabathier," he began murmuring again—'merely bones, mind you; brains and heart are quite another story. And it's pretty certain the fellow had some kind of brains. Besides, poor devil! he killed himself. That seems to hint at brains... '
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Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever—even perfect fools.
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