Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it. - Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.

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So you can be about your business, and then on it comes again. And this time you're ready, and you've got a wine glass or something. And you put the glass up to the wall, and you can hear through the wall a little bit more of the song - maybe just the middle bit this time. You know, you managed to get in a little bit of the end. And so it goes on until - because you just got to - you really just want to sing it.

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Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.

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