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> [No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandar-hemon/no-reader-owes-me-anything-i-am-owed-nothing-for-my-noble-efforts/)

[Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandar-hemon/)

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> [Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wagner/everything-lives-and-lasts-by-the-inner-necessity-of-its-being-by-its/)

[Richard Wagner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wagner/)

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> [“Laws can regulate only outer actions, and all outer actions are worthless when they do not arise from inner necessity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-carter-hett/laws-can-regulate-only-outer-actions-and-all-outer-actions-are/)

[Benjamin Carter Hett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-carter-hett/)

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> [Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/etty-hillesum/every-word-born-of-an-inner-necessity-writing-must-never-be-anything/)

[Etty Hillesum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/etty-hillesum/)

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> [Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandar-hemon/rilke-said-that-art-can-come-only-out-of-inner-necessity-i-write/)

[Aleksandar Hemon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandar-hemon/)

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> [Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/everybody-acts-not-only-under-external-compulsion-but-also-in/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [The things I do outside of playing the piano are done out of an inner necessity, not just because I want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-hough/the-things-i-do-outside-of-playing-the-piano-are-done-out-of-an-inner/)

[Stephen Hough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-hough/)

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> [The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley/the-creation-of-something-new-is-not-accomplished-by-the-intellect/)

[Shirley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley/)

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> [What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/what-destroys-a-man-more-quickly-than-to-work-think-and-feel-without/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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