Talent
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I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious
The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy
What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution
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