"Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need."

Creation, Desire, Man

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"Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need."

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"Everything in existence was gotten from the currency of time."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Sanity is madness put to good use."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?"

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

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"It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot."

Ted Hughes, English Poet

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"Energise your desires utilising your heart energy to create the things that you wish for in your life."

Steven Redhead, British Author

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"It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again."

Sonny Rollins, American Musician

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"I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives."

Raoul Dufy, French Artist

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"We have to define future worlds by imagining them first together.Otherwise, we will deal with no man's lands and potential conflicts."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make."

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"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."

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"The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth."

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"The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know."

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"So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us."

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"Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls."

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"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."

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"The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams."

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