"Genius ought'n to be eccentric!" he cried in some excitement. "Genius ought to be centric. It ought to be in the core of the cosmos, not on the revolving edges."
or this, about Augustine, and millions of the rest of us
an idleness which was fatal to his virtue
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I feel like Augustine’s idleness approaches a virtue. If he hadn’t spent a lot of time sitting and thinking he never would have come up with the insights into the nature of time from the Confession, for example.
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