How diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction

From The Passionate State of Mind by Eric Hoffer.

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There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse. The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.