“It may even be that, as you look more closely, to recognize the hidden seed which, born of a secret union, grows into a luxuriant plant and spreads forth into a thousand tendrils, until a single blossom, swelling to maturity, absorbs all the life-sap and kills the seed itself. [...] I came to feel that what we call simply dream and imagination might represent the secret thread that runs through our lives and links its varied facets; and that the man who thinks that, because he has perceived this, he has acquired the power to break the thread and challenge that mysterious force which rules us, is to be given up as lost.” ImaginationGothic Book:The Devil's Elixirs Source: The Devil's Elixirs
“I resolved to make the fullest use of the power within me and describe as with a magic wand the circles within which all life around me should dance for my delight.” ImaginationFireMagicRomanticismWand Book:The Devil's Elixirs Source: The Devil's Elixirs