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“Live out of your imagination, not your history.”
"If I have been given any gift in this life, it’s my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the world of imagination."
— Tom Robbins
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
— Marcel Proust
"... the idea that 'Life' contains situations more interesting and more romantic than all the romances ever written."
"O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake, Would all their colours from the sunset take."
— John Keats
"I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read."
— George R.R. Martin
"But if the Dream Kings were mine, what would I have to dream about? If I possessed the impossible landscapes, what would remain of the impossible?"
— Fernando Pessoa
"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary."
— Alan Moore
"I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be."
— Chris Brown
"To see a World in a grain of sand,And a Heaven in a wild flower,Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,And Eternity in an hour."
— William Blake
"Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy."
— Walt Disney
"In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature."
— Wallace Stevens
"I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't."
— Vladimir Nabokov
"I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream."
— Vincent van Gogh
"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."
— Ursula K. LeGuin
"I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world."
— Tom Hiddleston
"You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion."
— Sylvia Plath
"You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion."
"Alternatives and particularly desirable alternatives grow only on imaginary trees."
— Saul Bellow
"To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there."
— Richard Bach