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Tag Name "Imaginary" (358)

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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.
Benjamin Franklin
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Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It can be demonstrated that the child's contact with the real world is strengthened by his periodic excursions into fantasy. It becomes easier to tolerate the frustrations of the real world and to accede to the demands of reality if one can restore himself at intervals in a world where the deepest wishes can achieve imaginary gratification.
Selma Fraiberg
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A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.
Margaret Atwood
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Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.
Lloyd Alexander
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The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.
Edward Abbey
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The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.
Johan Huizinga
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The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.
Milan Kundera
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The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows but ourselves are shadows.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
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In this twenty-first century, there's no one like Sharona Muir who can write, in bright accurate language, animals real or imaginary in an updated bestiary that riffs on evolution, extinction, and what it means to be human among other species. We need this view, and you'll be right there with her on every page of Invisible Beasts.
John Felstiner
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The past is dead The future is imaginary Happiness can only be in the Eternal Now Moment.
Ken Keyes Jr.
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Every life has a love story, even though the beloved may be imaginary, or a cat.
Mason Cooley
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I had a very close relationship with another kid when I was growing up. I was his imaginary friend.
Emo Philips
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All fear is imaginary, reality is its antidote.
Andre Comte-Sponville
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But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish ever more exotic surfaces, hyperboloidial and even stranger, eventually including what we must term ‘imaginary’ shapes (which some preferred to term invisible).
Thomas Pynchon
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...after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the imaginary country that stretches out before us.
Chris Marker
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I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity, and that if there is not, every imaginary sign of his existence might vanish : in short, let nature speak distinctly, or be totally silent, and I shall know what course to take.
Blaise Pascal
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While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions.
Eva Hoffman
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Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
Margaret Halsey
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The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.
Mason Cooley
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We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.
Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
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Unicorns are real and emo is imaginary.
Mikey Way
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