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Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
I reject your reality and substitute it for my own.
I reject your reality and substitute it for my own.
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable read more
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you
everywhere.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you
everywhere.
People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their read more
People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from read more
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of read more
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.