"To create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate from the creator, and needed no seconding to fully exist."

Creation, Existence, Art, Freedom

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"To create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate from the creator, and needed no seconding to fully exist."

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"It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Creation, Importance, Solitude

"Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers."

George Orwell, British Author

Creation, Language, Poets, Workers

"I had desired it with an ardor that far exceeded moderation, but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Author

Creation, Horror, Disgust, Ambition

"This much I know already: When Tommy and the Big Brains, in whispered, wry asides, talk about Project 88715, they call it something else. They call it the "Adam Project."

Michael Grant, American Author

Creation, Secrecy, Project, Mystery, Knowledge

"Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Author

Creation, Disgust, Blame, Existence, Rejection

"And of the sixth day yet remainedThere wanted yet the master work, the endOf all yet done: a creature who not prone And brute as other creatures but enduedWith sanctity of reason might erect His stature and, upright with front serene,Govern the rest, self-knowing, and from thenceMagnanimous to correspond with Heaven, But grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends, thither with heart and voice and eyesDirected in devotion to adore And worship God supreme who made him chiefOf all His works."

John Milton, English Poet

Creation, Reason, Humanity, Divinity

"The greatest imagination in all of existence is one that would be able to take 'nothing' and imagine 'something' from 'nothing.' And that is God."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Creation, Imagination, Faith, Truth, Power

"And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth to shape the world and make it live was still alive in it. I just had no doubt. I could see that I lived in the created world, and it was still being created. I would be part of it forever. There was no escape. The Spirit that made it was in it, shaping it and reshaping it, sometimes lying at rest, sometimes standing up and shaking itself, like a muddy horse, and letting the pieces fly."

Wendell Berry, American Poet

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"The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature. In my desire for you, I burn at the right temperature to walk through love's fire. So when you ask me why I cannot love you more calmly, I answer that to love you calmly is not to love you at all."

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"St. Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry."

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"She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world."

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"I think we still believe that ambition is for boys."

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"There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that."

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"The things that I regret in my life are not errors of judgement but failures of feeling."

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"Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue."

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"In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey."

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"The free man never thinks of escape."

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"He: What's the matter with you?Me: Nothing.Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, "but there was nothing the matter with her."

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