"<p></p> <p>This is the human faculty that is most difficult to acquire, this is the quality against which the most secret instincts of our being rebel, because we are mortal, because our time is running out, because our star is running out: this is the most painful duty, to ourselves, to our destiny and to its deepest meaning, to our work. There is no true creation without infinite patience, capable of remaining master of man's innermost nature. For creation is never a sleight of hand, a lightning-fast trick, a gambling sans-sé-passe*, the creator cannot pull works of art out of the cylinders. It is not only the genius: patience - the work itself is patience, the patience of organic development, the miracle of retention and maturation. To learn patience, in life and work, is to learn the secret of the Creator. Digest this lesson, you restless mortal.</p>"