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Knut: Children in general cannot understand what goes on in their parents’ heads. It’s pointless to speculate.

Professor Beserl: You can't make art by just working hard. You have to achieve something effortlessly and naturally. When you art looks like magic to your audience -- not like back-breaking work, then it's exactly right.

Grandmother Polar Bear: In life, we don't have a choice because everything we are capable of is still not very much compared with life itself, not nearly as much as we imagine. And if we don't get this not-very-much exactly right, we will not survive. This fundamental principle can't be terribly different even for spoiled young people in a prosperous society.