"The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body."
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"For the Eye altering alters all; The Senses roll themselves in fear And the flat Earth becomes a Ball."
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"I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know."
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"To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination."
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"After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination."
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"We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly."
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"Dinosaurs may be extinct from the face of the planet, but they are alive and well in our imaginations."
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"Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have."
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"The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others to do so as well, seeking to free ourselves from constraints imposed by coercive institutions, dogma, irrationality, excessive conformity and lack of initiative and imagination, and numerous other obstacles."
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"We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh"
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"People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love."
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"Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health."
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"Don't let your imagination take you by surprise."
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"'The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. I know the United States Army will live up to its reputation for imagination, resourcefulness, and spirit as we meet this challenge."
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"I imagine therefore I belong and am free."
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"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."
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"So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear."
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"I think we live only through our dreams and our imagination."
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"The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul."
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"A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience."
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