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Anatole France
: To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
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Francisco Jose De Goya Y Lucientes :
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The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Georg C Lichtenberg :
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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
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Italo Calvino :
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I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.
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Karl Kraus :
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In these great times which I knew when they were this small; which will become small again, provided they have time left for it in these times in which things are happening that could not be imagined and in which what can no longer be imagined must happen, for if one could imagine it, it would not happen; in these serious times which have died laughing at the thought that they might become serious; which, surprised by their own tragedy, are reaching for diversion and, catching themselves red-handed, are groping for words... in these times you should not expect any words of my own from me -- none but these words which barely manage to prevent silence from being misinterpreted.
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Alan W Watts :
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The idea of nothing has bugged people for centuries, especially in the Western world. We have a saying in Latin, Ex nihilo nihil fit, which means "out of nothing comes nothing." It has occurred to me that this is a fallacy of tremendous proportions. It lies at the root of all our common sense, not only in the West, but in many parts of the East as well. It manifests in a kind of terror of nothing, a put-down on nothing, and a put-down on everything associated with nothing, such as sleep, passivity, rest, and even the feminine principles. But to me nothing — the negative, the empty — is exceedingly powerful. I would say, on the contrary, you can't have something without nothing. Image nothing but space, going on and on, with nothing in it forever. But there you are imagining it, and you are something in it. The whole idea of there being only space, and nothing else at all is not only inconceivable but perfectly meaningless, because we always know what we mean by contrast.
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Robert Coover :
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The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.
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Jean Baudrillard :
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Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.
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You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
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Janet Frame :
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Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
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To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price on conjecture.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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