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Ellen Key

"When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination."

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"When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination."

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Amber Hurdle

"Reality is not enough for us, that's why we have invented art to create different realities!"

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"Lovely thoughts came flying to meet me like birds. They weren't my thoughts. I couldn't think anything half so exquisite. They came from somewhere."

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"The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons, but children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed."

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"Definitions are vital starting points for the imagination. What we cannot imagine cannot come into being. A good definition marks our starting point and lets us know where we want to end up. As we move toward our desired destination we chart the journey, creating a map. We need a map to guide us on our journey to love--starting with the place where we know what we mean when we speak of love."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about."

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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."

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

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"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?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history. They keep us chained to the rock, that the vultures may eat out our hearts. It is the artist who has the courage to go against the crowd; he is the unrecognized "hero of our time" - and of all time."

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Amber Hurdle

"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."

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"At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses."
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"The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen."
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"The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract."
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"Art, that great undogmatized church."
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"Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity."
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"Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one."
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"The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present."
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"Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love."
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"Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being."
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"Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity."
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