#imaginary

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit. ↗

— William H. Seward

#classification #conceit #course #equilibrium #established

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

#give #help #help people #imaginary #insecure

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

— Paul Harris

#imaginary #man #priestly #primitive #real

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster. ↗

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

#been #devotions #during #expedition #henry

Imaginary evils are incurable. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#imaginary #incurable

Gavin, I can’t talk to you here. People will call me crazy." My imaginary friend smirked. "But you’re already talking to me." "Well, I have to stop." His smirk grew cocky. "I doubt you can resist." And he was right. There was nothing I wanted more than to give my full attention to an imagined shadow and ignore those who ignored me in the real world. I wanted to talk out loud to Gavin--to play and laugh boisterously with him. In a dream I could justify such behavior, but to succumb to hallucinations while wide awake would only prove me insane. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#imaginary-friend #longing #love #madness #richelle

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

#imaginary #real #experience

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#fantasy-love #imaginary-sex #imagination #love #sex

A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#healing #heart #imaginary-friend #imagination #inspirational

The imaginary is what tends to become real. ↗

— André Breton

#imaginattion #reality #surrealism #surreal