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Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.

— John Steinbeck East of Eden (1952)

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Source: Part 2, Ch. 13. i
Work: East of Eden, 1952
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