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“The human mind couldn't cope with looking at nothing for very long and, in sufficient darkness, quickly began to create its own images of what it thought belonged there.”

Book:From Below

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“How is it that what is actually present and transpiring is commonly perceived by the common sense and understanding only, is bare and bald, without halo or the blue enamel of intervening air? But let it be past or to come, and it is at once idealized. It is not simply the understanding now, but the imagination, that takes cognizance of it. The imagination requires a long range. It is the faculty of the poet to see present things as if, in this sense, also past and future, as if distant or universally significant.”

Past Poetry Time Understanding Imagination Present

Book:The Journal, 1837-1861

Source: The Journal, 1837-1861

“The point on which the town of Seal Cove is built, shelters a small harbor on the south, and a series of lovely secluded coves on the north, one of which lends its name to the town.”

Love Imagination Grief Humour Small Town Literary Fiction Neighbours Small Town Fiction Rural Fiction

Book:The Seal Cove Theoretical Society

Source: The Seal Cove Theoretical Society

“I think a bookshop is like a map of the world. There are infinite paths you can take through it and none of them are right or wrong. Here in a bookshop we give readers landmarks to help them find their way, but every reader has to learn to set their own compass.”

Reading Imagination Books Bookstores Bookshops

Book:Tilly and the Bookwanderers

Source: Tilly and the Bookwanderers

“But empathy requires imagination, and he didn’t have enough of either.”

Imagination Empathy

Book:Ship Wrecked

Source: Ship Wrecked

“I will serve up delights you've never imagined,' Locke's smile is infectious. He will serve up trouble, that's for sure. Trouble I have no time for. 'Have a care,' I say, drawing Locke's attention to me for the first time. 'I am sure you would not wish to insult the High King's imagination.' 'Indeed, I'm sure not,' Cardan says in a way that's difficult to interpret.”

Imagination Holly Black The Folk Of The Air Jude Duarte Cardan Greenbriar Jude Cardan The Wicked King Locke Delights

Book:The Wicked King

Source: The Wicked King

“For if a room that exists under the governance, authority, and intent of others seems smaller than it is, then a room that exists in secret can, regardless of its dimensions, seem as vast as one cares to imagine.”

Imagination Freedom Mindset

Book:A Gentleman in Moscow

Source: A Gentleman in Moscow

“There is a widely held belief that the imagination is not to be trusted and that only things scientifically real and provable can be relied on. Yet, many of your greatest scientific inventions comes from the imagination. [...] Everything in your reality existed as a thought before it existed in reality.”

Science Imagination Imaginary Imaginative Visionary Scientific Discovery Scientific Theory Power Of Imagination Imagining

Book:Opening to Channel: How to Connect with Your Guide

Source: Opening to Channel: How to Connect with Your Guide

“Dying never having unleashed my imagination won’t be my first death.”

Death Passion Imagination Vision Dying Calling Unleash

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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