Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day."
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Creation
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Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Religious Leader
"Jehovah created the earth and therefore it is his by right of creation."
James Joyce
Novelist, Poet
"The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails."
Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation."
Khalil Gibran
Poet, Writer
"All things in this creation exist within you and all things in you exist in creation; there is no border between you and the closest things, and there is no distance between you and the farthest things, and all things, from the lowest to the loftiest, from the smallest to the greatest, are within you as equal things."
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"I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created."
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"After creation God said, 'It is finished'-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, 'It is finished'-and we can rest."
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"This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic."
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"As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two."
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"Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws."
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"Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul."
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"Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind."
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"What was God doing before the divine creation? Was he preparing hell for people who asked such questions?"
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"The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day."
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"The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet."
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"The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act."
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"The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation."
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"Crystals are living beings at the beginning of creation."
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"The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all."
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"Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it."
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"Eternal love made me."
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"Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do with it. Freedom from the known is the state of a mind that is in creation."
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"In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction."
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"There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity."
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"To destroy is always the first step in any creation."
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