"The will to incessant creation is vulgar,..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.
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“As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.”
“Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation, like God himself, to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down.”
“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it”