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"I don't know; Killers are sort of romantic. Imagine your dying with his hands around his throat. He'd strangle the life out of you, and the last thing you would see would be his face." ↗

— L.J. Smith

#xd #imagination

We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know. ↗

— Joan Didion

#imagination

The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own. ↗

— Heraclitus

#life #reality #imagination

All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a window as I did. And so I could not imagine her as a person who could feel fear, who could feel isolated in a roomful of people, who could be shy about her record collection because it was too personal to share. Someone who might have read travel books to escape having to live in the town that so many people escape to. Someone who — because no one thought she was a person — had no one to really talk to. ↗

— John Green

#imagination

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine - it is stranger than we can imagine. ↗

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

#physics #science #universe #imagination

While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination." (from "The Third and Final Continent") ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#moon #imagination

The truth is always simpler than you can imagine. ↗

— Christopher Pike

#imagination

You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answer their simple questions when they come into your office. You are not nameless to me. Do not remain nameless to yourself — it is too sad a way to be. Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#imagination

My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described. ↗

— Yann Martel

#imagination

Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#imagination #time-travel #imagination