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The amount which cannot be harnessed and domesticated, but insists on its own form of activity rather than one which is offered ready made, is the energy used for the creation of art.

Beatrice M. Hinkle

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Beatrice M. Hinkle
Age: 78 †
Born: 1874
Born: January 1
Died: 1953
Died: January 1
Psychiatrist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Beatrice Moses Hinkle
Energy
Domesticated
Art
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Creation
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