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“Marriage: so call I the will of the twain to create the one that is more than those who created it.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Religion, so far as it is genuine, is in essence the response of created personalities to the Creating Personality, God.” A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
“The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
“Women . . . inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I also became a poet and for one year lived in a paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“I love him who seeketh to create beyond himself, and thus succumbeth.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, History
“Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head.” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“I felt what the duties of a creator towards his creature were, and that I ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“You can write a song anywhere, in a railroad compartment, on a boat, on horseback — it helps to be moving. Sometimes people who have the greatest talent for writing songs never write any because they are not moving.” Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.” Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“by believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired” Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco
“Faith creates nothing; it simply reckons upon that which is already there.” A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
“If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is not poverty and no poor, indifferent place.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.” Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
“After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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