The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is true not only of the writer, artist and scientist, but of creators in other fields...With the noncreative it is the other way around: in whatever they do, they arrange things so that they themselves become indispensable.
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Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure.
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The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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