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"There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness."
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"I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend..."
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"...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist."
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"The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies."
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"Few people have the imagination for reality."
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"But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else. I could never have imagined Margo's anger at being found, or the story she was writing over. But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in."
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of FA¡fnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril."
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"Says, Rahula! Rahula! Face of Glory! Universe chawed and swallowed!"
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"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."
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"The world cannot be translated, It can only be dreamed of and touched."
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"The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords."
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"Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him."
Life
"To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore."
Memory
"In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question."
Love
"We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity."
Power
"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."
Government
"But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference."
Care
"Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason."
Passion
"Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil."
Evil
"As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking."
Education
"The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men."
Man
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