#imaginary

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it. ↗

— Philip Pullman

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I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head. ↗

— Lee Ryan

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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. ↗

— Marianne Moore

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Imaginary evils are incurable. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#imaginary #incurable

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

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It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract. ↗

— Nicola Chiaromonte

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Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing. ↗

— Stanley Spencer

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My life exists in an imagined reality. ↗

— Mandy Patinkin

#imagination #life #reality #imagination

A long time ago people believed that the world is flat and the moon is made of green cheese. Some still do, to this day. The man on the moon is looking down and laughing. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#beliefs #believe #cheese #flat #flat-earth