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"Science does not know its debt to imagination."
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"The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom."

"What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine."

"Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can."

"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."

"O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . .She is the fairies' midwife, and she comesIn shape no bigger than an agate stoneOn the forefinger of an alderman,Drawn with a team of little atomiAthwart men's noses as they lie asleep."

"And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth."

"The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen."

"Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic."

"When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories."

"With astonishing wonder, I have seen the magic of life, the power of thoughts, and the beauty of imagination."
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"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."

"The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief."

"If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead."

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."

"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

"It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion."
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