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I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.
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A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.
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I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.
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Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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Born:
May 1, 1881
Died:
August 6, 1929
(aged 48)
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