"only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art."
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"Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head."
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"An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation"
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"Your imagination creates the inner picture that allows you to participate in the act of creation."
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"It took the whole of Creation to produce my foot, my each feather: now I hold Creation in my foot."
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"But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is also necessary for his psychical life to place the soul of the child in contact with creation."
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"Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown."
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"The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people."
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"Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies."
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"The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything."
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"I criticise by creation, not by finding fault."
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"Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation."
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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
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"The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed."
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"The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable."
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"I always fear that creation will expire before teatime."
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"Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality."
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"The fact is, that with the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews fled Arab countries, almost all of whom left behind all their property for which compensation was never paid."
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"Criticism is the essence of creation."
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"Since our problems have been our own creation, they also can be overcome."
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