"Genius, he felt, is necessarily intolerant of fetters: on the one hand it must have the utmost play for its spontaneity; on the other, it may confidently await those messages from the universe which summon it to its peculiar work, only placing itself in an attitude of receptivity towards all sublime chances."
George Eliot
Middlemarch
"He" here is young Will Ladislaw heading for Europe.
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