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But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

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We enjoy lovely music, beautiful paintings, a thousand intellectual delicacies, but we have no idea of their cost, to those who invented them, in slee...more

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The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.

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Until I saw Chardin's painting I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house in the half-cleared table in the corner of a tab...more

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Now I could appreciate the merits of a broad, poetical, powerful interpretation, or rather it was to this that those epithets were conventionally appl...more

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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

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Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination.

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All these things and, still more than these, the treasures which had come to the church from personages who to me were almost legendary figures (such ...more

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With women who do not love us, as with the "dear departed," the knowledge that there is no hope left does not prevent us from continuing to wait.

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For a young man has strong imagination but poor judgment, so that he imagines others to be as big as he is but considers himself to be very small. He ...more

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The wretchedness of ordinary life, endured so gaily when it is part of our normal existence, is made far worse when it comes as something new, and is ...more

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It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.

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A real person, profoundly as we may sympathize with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say, remains opaque, pr...more

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This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a swelling over his stomach, he fe...more

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My dears, laugh at me if you like; it is not conventionally beautiful, but there is something in its quaint old face which pleases me. If it could pla...more