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QUOTATION:Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
ATTRIBUTION:Simone Weil (1909–1943), French philosopher, mystic. repr. In Selected Essays, ed. Richard Rees (1962). “Human Personality,” La Table Ronde (Dec. 1950).
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