"We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination."

Imagination, Beauty, Truth, Mystery

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"We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination."

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"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Fairytales are healthy for the children. As they grow up, the magical thinking wears off, but the fairytale-induced creative brain circuits stay forever."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Imagination, Belief, Exercise

"How crazy it would be if the moon did spin and the earth stood still and the sun went dim!How absolutely ludicrous if snakes could walk and kids could fly and mimes did talk!How silly it would be if the nights were tan and the mornings green and the sun cyan!How totally ridiculous if horses chirped and spiders sang and ladies burped!How shocking it would be if the dragons ruled and the knights were daft but the fish were schooled!How utterly preposterous if rain were dry and snowflakes warm and real men cried!I love to just imagineall the lows as heights,and the salty, sweet,and our lefts as rights.Perhaps it is incredibleand off the hook,but it all makes sensein a storybook!"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Imagination, Truth, Humor, Wisdom

"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."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies would never crash through windshields. The moon would rise above the wine-dark sea and give babies only to maidens and musicians who had prayed long and hard. Lost girls wouldn't need compasses or maps. They would find gingerbread paths to lead them out of the forest and home again. They would never sleep in silver boxes with white velvet sheets, not until they were wrinkled-paper grandmas and ready for the trip."

Laurie Halse Anderson, American Author

Imagination, Protection, Magic, Hope

"A tree house, to me, is the most royal palace in the world."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Imagination, Royalty, Home, Childhood

"You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Imagination, Storytelling, Creativity, Life

"The world cannot be translated, It can only be dreamed of and touched."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

Imagination, World, Dream, Reality

"There was a moment of silence as they imagined a future in which there existed an organisation that stole imagination for, undoubtedly, a sinister plan."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Imagination, Future, Threat, Hope

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"Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world."

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"The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct."

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"There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report."

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"On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle."

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"It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living."

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"Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road."

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"In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence."

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"Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies."

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"If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it."

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"Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off."

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