"Imagination is the mightiest despot."

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Source : Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.430

Berthold Auerbach

#Imagination Quotes

“There's no education in the second kick of a mule”
“Happy Days, which we did for 11 years, we did with three cameras in front of a live audience. Very special. We had a party every Friday night. The boys, Ron, Henry, they grew up on that show.”
“Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature”
“When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.”
“I have never been able to resist a book about books.”

Source : Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.139, Macmillan
“The weight of the dead was heavier than the pounds of the body.”
“Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.”
“I don't have a sense of time. Time is timeless to me, and I'm not in a hurry to get older. I mean, if I were worried about time, all the time, it would be terrible.”

Source : "Life and Lies of an Icon". Book by Richard Witts, 1995.

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