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"His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it."
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"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."

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

"Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head. They're all the time talkin' about it, but it's jus' in their head."

"My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men."

"Sci-fi opens the way in mind for the new science."

"Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that you have experienced an earthquake of the soul. You've been torn asunder, invested with an ancient, incomprehensible magic. It's the one thing that we never quite get over: that we contain our own future."

"As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope."

"My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day."
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"It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?"

"And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint."

"But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm."

"His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it."
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