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Over time, naturally, you lose your innocence from gaining knowledge. You can't be innocent forever, but there's something in innocence you need to regain to be creative. ”
That's the purpose of creative stuff: when you really love what you do, you have to know at some point, or points, you're not going to be good at it. That's just the process of learning. I can edit it and try to be as perfect as I can, but I'm still going to have my vulnerable spots and my weaknesses. ”
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. ”
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. ”
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. ”
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. ”
Imagination is more important than knowledge. ”
It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle. ”
When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills. ”
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity. ”