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Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining. ↗

— James Hillman

#imagination

The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a book, and you are able to stroll along both the real and imagined road. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#literature #place #topography #imagination

He had never got so much back for himself from any pupil as he did from Miss Kronborg. From the first she had stimulated him; something in her personality invariably affected him. Now that he was feeling his way toward her voice, he found her more interesting than ever before. She lifted the tedium of the winter for him, gave him curious fancies and reveries. Musically, she was sympathetic to him. Why this was true, he never asked himself. He had learned that one must take where and when one can the mysterious mental irritant that rouses one's imagination; that it is not to be had by order. She often wearied him, but she never bored him. ↗

— Willa Cather

#imagination #pupil #student #teacher #imagination

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#genre #imagination #relevance #imagination

He was a man of most subtle and refined intellect. A man of culture, charm, and distinction. One of the most intellectual men I ever met." "I prefer a gentlemanly fool any day. There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#oscar-wilde #imagination

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ... ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#inspirational #life #seize-the-day #inspirational

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#inspirational #humor

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people! ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#inspirational

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go. ↗

— Randall Munroe

#life #xkcd #inspirational

What the soul hardly realizes is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God. ↗

— Dom Hubert Van Zeller

#inspirational #soul #inspirational