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"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."
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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."
"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."
"Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere."
"Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company."
"Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment."
"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."
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"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."
"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."
"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances."
"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."
"The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation."
"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."
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