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"But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?"
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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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"I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?"
Beauty

"Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health."
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"That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others."
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"Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand."
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"Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace."
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"Ingratitude is treason to mankind."
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"More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution."
Courage

"Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves."
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"For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day."
Life

"But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?"
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