"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."

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"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

Imagination, Dignity, End, Importance

"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Imagination, Memories, Old, Sense

"Never tell to much. The monster is always scarier when it is still under the child's bed."

Stephen King, American Author

Imagination, Truth, Wisdom, Regret, Fear

"How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Imagination, Humanity, Perception, Creation

"Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Imagination, Atmosphere, Belief, Emotion

"Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Imagination, Reading, Companionship, Boredom

"I do not want to just read books I want to crawl inside them and live there."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Imagination, Books, Live, Escape

"Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment."

William Warburton, English Critic

Imagination, Enthusiasm, Judgment, Mind

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Imagination, Hurt, Reality

"My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk."

John Keats, English Poet

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"On desperate seas long wont to roam Thy hyacinth hair they classic face Thy naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome."

Art

"I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife."

Happiness

"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom."

Psychology

"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"

Philosophy

"The teeth!-the teeth!-they were here, and there, and everywhere, and visibly and palpably before me; long, narrow, and excessively white, with the pale lips writhing about them, as in the very moment of their first terrible development."

Horror

"How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?-from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born."

Philosophy

"I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not."

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"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."

"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."

"Never tell to much. The monster is always scarier when it is still under the child's bed."

"How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all."

"Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere."

"Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company."

"I do not want to just read books I want to crawl inside them and live there."

"Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment."

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

"My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk."

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"On desperate seas long wont to roam Thy hyacinth hair they classic face Thy naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome."

"Be nothing which thou art not."

"In efforts to soar above our nature we invariably fall below it."

"I am a writer. Therefore. I am not sane."

"I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife."

"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"

"The teeth!-the teeth!-they were here, and there, and everywhere, and visibly and palpably before me; long, narrow, and excessively white, with the pale lips writhing about them, as in the very moment of their first terrible development."

"How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?-from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born."

"I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not."