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What sparks our dreams, especially those crazy ones?
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There is also the matter of his genius. Goethe once said - modestly not including himself in the list - that certain individuals, like Shakespeare and Mozart, were put on earth solely in order to provide frustratingly unattainable benchmarks of human capacity and achievement
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