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“Imagination is a sacred intuitive spirit within the soul.”

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“I love fantasy; I love imagination. That's the inner child in me.”

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“It's better to imagine than to know.”

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“Who can define reality? Isn't everything subjective? If you & I witness the same event, we will recall it and recount it differently. ... Memory is conditioned by emotion, we remember better, and more fully, things that move us, such as the joy of a birth, the pleasure of a night of love, the pain of a loved one's death, the trauma of a wound. When we call up the past, we choose intense moments--good or bad--and omit the enormous gray area of daily life.”

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Book:My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile

Source: My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile

“How easy it is to fly on paper wings!”

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Book:The Story of My Life

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“The true basis of the imagination is reality”

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Book:The Advanced Montessori Method

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“It is strange that the imagination is the most productive when it finds no outer objects: then it creates objects itself and forms them all the more carefully, because there is no foreign material, but only its own children. There is no poetry in enjoyment (reality kills the dream), only in longing[.]”

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Author:Karoline von Günderrode

“Agnes discovered that both the imagined and the real worlds could be equally comforting, and that sometimes it was very hard to tell the difference.”

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Book:The Restless Girls

Source: The Restless Girls

“You see, the king could control the paths his daughters trod; he could take away their pleasures and their views and lock them up. He could make sure that the princesses didn't have anything in that room except their toothbrushes and tiaras, pajamas and nightgowns. But king or no king, there was one thing they possessed that he could never own: their imaginations.”

Book:The Restless Girls

Source: The Restless Girls

“Embrace delusions.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“...I realized imagination is not just the catalyst of art, it's also the catalyst of compassion. Imagination is the shortest distance between two people, two cultures, two ideologies, two experiences.”

Imagination Empathy

Book:Untamed

Source: Untamed