Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary.

George Eliot
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Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary. This quote from the philosopher Plotinus is descriptive of the action of a creative passion. This creative passion has a creative effect on all things around it because it is the opposite direction of all other creative forces, which tend to complete themselves in themselves.

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