“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free”
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“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free”
“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk”
“Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works”
“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.”
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.”
“The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness”
“The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth”
“To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.”
“Do you think yourself wise? Then there's a donkey inside your waistcoat”
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions”