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“To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love.”

World Love Needs May Desire Stars Sky Figures Sweet Wall Lovers Red Rose Snow Imaginary Strain Red Rose Imaginary World

Author:Williston Fish

“This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we are but with the building up of an imaginary conception of ourselves in the opinion of others. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter.”

Men Desire Effort Opinion Building Theory Concerned Praise Insight Conception Imaginary Shelter Preservation Persistent Imperatives Spectacular Building Up

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.”

Men Way Seems Able Desire Space Vision Feminism Subjects Capable Embrace Feminist Fulfillment Revolutionary Encounters Imaginary Linked Responding Subjugation

Book:Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

Source: Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

“Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.”

Desire Choices Evil Effects Appearance Chosen Imaginary

Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

“It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God. He only has to refuse his ultimate love to everything that is not God. This refusal does not presuppose any belief. It is enough to recognize what is obvious to any mind: that all the goods of this world, past, present, and future, real or imaginary, are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.”

“America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end.”

Thinking Mean Real Ends America Desire Fiction Talent Concrete Imaginary Great Talent

Author:Karen Russell

“We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.”

Mind Real Desire Purpose Existence Labor Shining Vanity Preserves Hypocrisy Neglect Endeavor Imaginary Desire To Live Imaginary Life

Book:Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works

“It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.”

Thinking Said Desire Objects Imaginary Agony Objects Of Desire

Author:T. S. Eliot