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“The principle of caution, respecting the gravity of human suffering, weighs against procreating to the extent that it is unpredictable whether the person created will have a good life.”

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“Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image, even as I do now. What am I? Nothing: but not so art thou, Soul of my thought! with whom I traverse earth, Invisible but gazing, as I glow Mix'd with thy spirit, blended with thy birth, And feeling still with thee in my crush'd feelings' dearth.”

Life Imagination

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers with a bald statement of the facts.”

Imagination Writer

Book:The Black Tulip

Source: The Black Tulip

“Imagination is not an icing on the cake of life but the oven in which it is baked.”

Imagination Creativity

Author:Orna Ross

“Rows and rows of books lined the shelves and I let my eyes linger on the sturdy spines, thinking how human books were, so full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of fingerprints and sudden laughter and the sighs of readers, too. It was humbling to consider all these authors, struggling with this word or that phrase, recording their thoughts for people they'd never meet. In that same way, the detritus of the boxes was humbling - receipts, jotted notes, photos with no inscriptions, all of it once held together by the fabric of lives now finished, gone.”

Imagination Books Authors

Book:The Lake of Dreams

Source: The Lake of Dreams

“Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d'you think?”

Life Philosophy Questions

Book:Postcards from No Man's Land

Source: Postcards from No Man's Land

“Children, brought up naturally and in freedom, not only have imagination, but live in a world of imagination more real to them than our reality. ("Absolute Evil")”

Children Imagination

Book:American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

Source: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

“You used to be optimistic. You used to think that whatever we did would turn out well. Even after we came back from the north, you used to think that. Now you're cautious, you're anxious… You're pessimistic." She knew he was right, but it wasn't right that he should speak to her accusingly, as if it was something to blame her for. "I used to be young," was all she could find to say.”

Imagination Growing Up

Book:The Secret Commonwealth

Source: The Secret Commonwealth

“Because it's so difficult to fight what you cannot control and right now I can't even control my own imagination as it grips my hair and drags me into the dark.”

Imagination Dark Juliette Ferrars

Book:Unravel Me

Source: Unravel Me

“C’est toujours l’imagination qui l’emporte sur la volonté, sans aucune exception. - It is always the imagination that wins over the will, without exception.”

Imagination Imagine Creative Power Power Of Imagination Imagining Imagination Power

Author:Émile Coué

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