Originality is relevant with respect to creativity and genius, in the sense that originality combined with intelligence may result in those.

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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.” Nietzsche

"The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger." --W. Somerset Maugham