"This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain."
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"Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto."
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"Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity."
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"Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration."
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"It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler."
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"My imagination is a twisted place."
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"Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky."
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"Imagination is a very high sort of seeing."
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"The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time."
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"Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality."
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"There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination."
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"Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil."
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"The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments."
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"What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason."
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"Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us."
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"There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry."
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"Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste."
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"My guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere."
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"A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere."
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"In order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to be faithful in carrying the out afterwards. Without doing that, one is often virtuous only in one's imagination."
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