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"Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth."
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"Fairytales are healthy for the children. As they grow up, the magical thinking wears off, but the fairytale-induced creative brain circuits stay forever."
"I mean, public libraries like this one were always short of money, so building even the tiniest of labyrinths had to be beyond their means."
"A tree house, to me, is the most royal palace in the world."
"The world cannot be translated, It can only be dreamed of and touched."
"There was a moment of silence as they imagined a future in which there existed an organisation that stole imagination for, undoubtedly, a sinister plan."
"Dream is the realm most people live their life."
"This is the creature there has never been.They never knew it, and yet, none the less,they loved the way it moved, its suppleness,its neck, its very gaze, mild and serene.Not there, because they loved it, it behavedas though it were. They always left some space.And in that clear unpeopled space they savedit lightly reared its head, with scarce a traceof not being there. They fed it, not with corn,but only with the possibilityof being. And that was able to confersuch strength, its brow put forth a horn. One horn.within the silver mirror and in her."
"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."
"You're afraid of imagination. And even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the responsibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep, and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination. But you can't suppress dreams."
"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."
Explore more quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
"All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter."
"To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute."
"She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions."
"His life was a constant war with insensate objects that fell apart, or attacked him, or refused to function, or viciously got themselves lost as soon as they entered the sphere of his existence."
"I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet."
"Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity."
"Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths-until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about."
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