#imaginary

It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones. ↗

— Dorothy Dix

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As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries. ↗

— Paul Harris

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

— Marianne Moore

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as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. ↗

— Federico Fellini

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Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

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Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#die #difficulties #exist #foothills #imaginary

These are facts, these are not imaginary things. ↗

— Iyad Allawi

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I'm not interested in an imaginary world. ↗

— Edward Bond

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