Max Beerbohm Quote

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

No. 2, The Pines (1914) - And Even Now (1920)

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.