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"A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works."
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"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."
"The world cannot be translated, It can only be dreamed of and touched."
"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."
"The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality."
"Things as they appear every day and as they are engraved in our memory, facts and occurrences as they are perceived by senses, create an intricate labyrinth in the mind. The way how things are experienced in our environment and how they react in the arsenal of our imagination, creates a torrent of inspiring ideas that flood the speedy highways of our brains. [' Labyrinth of the mind ']"
"But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe."
"What if dragons breathed bubbles and purred when they cuddled and giggled at chivalrous knights for their troubles?What if dragons felt soft, having scales made of cloth,and they moved rather slow like a brown-throated sloth?What if dragons were shyand did easily crywhen confronted by characters callous and sly?What if dragons did goodbut were misunderstoodso men mercilessly slew the beasts right where they stood?What if dragons aren't missedbecause there is no listof extinct types of quarry that now don't exist?"
"It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth."
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"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created."
"I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name."
"The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make."
"It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last."
"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."
"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."
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