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“...nature itself is a poem that we humans have written [...and] the imagination is the principle vehicle of human progress.”

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“The mind is incapable of refusing to be used as best as it is capable of being used.”

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“Life, he supposes, is like that – not simply a catalogue of events, but an internal narrative that imposes shape and order on those events, and adds and subtracts, and lends meaning where there is none. And if one makes no attempt to separate invention from reality, or to impose some discipline on that inner storyteller, one might wonder whether one has in fact lived dozens of lives, countless lives. Reality, he thinks, is not the same as the truth.”

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Book:Loving Imogen

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“Nothing new or innovative is created without a stretch of the imagination. Reach your goals by reaching for the sky with some brain stretches of the imagination every day.”

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Author:Richie Norton

“What good was escaping into one's imagination if the world's problems came along for the ride?”

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Book:A Return of Devotion

Source: A Return of Devotion

“Even with imagination, there is still nation.”

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“Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken.”

Love Life Pain Pleasure Personality Dancing Treasure Choice Name Neil Gaiman The Graveyard Book

Book:The Graveyard Book

Source: The Graveyard Book

“...When he puts a thing on a pedestal and calls it beautiful, he demands the same delight from others. He judges not merely for himself, but for all men, and then speaks of beauty as if it were the property of things.”

Philosophy Kant Critique Of Judgment

Book:Critique of Judgment

Source: Critique of Judgment

“...and since the beginning of human history the soldier and the poet had shared great (or terrible) imaginations that remade their surroundings.”

Imagination History Poet Soldier Dante Club Matthew Pearl

Book:The Dante Chamber

Source: The Dante Chamber

“A good novel is the one which is well-researched on the topic that revolves around the novel.”

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Book:The Chocolate Cake

Source: The Chocolate Cake

“Like Unsworth, many of us have lost something since our childhood reading days. To put it simply, we’ve lost the “lostness”—the sheer abandonment children can experience when they give themselves wholeheartedly to their imagination. As we grow older, perhaps we become too distracted and responsible to do this. But a growing awareness of self (perhaps primarily) also discourages this lostness.”

Children Imagination

Author:Gracy Olmstead