“Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.”
“Genius is an infinite capacity for pain.”
“Genius is an infinite capacity for causing pain.”
“...and youth, strength, genius, thoughts, achievements, simple hearts-all dies...No matter.”
“I saw that Haller was a genius of suffering and that in the meaning of many sayings of Nietzsche he had created within himself with positive genius a boundless and frightful capacity for pain.”
“Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.”