"Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning."
-Anais Nin
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"There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.“
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"There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic."
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"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."
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"I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern."
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"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
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"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow."
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"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."
-Terry Wogan
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"Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality."
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"Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them."
-Laurette Taylor
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"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."
-Theodore Gericault
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"Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination."
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"One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?"
-Francis Cabot Lowell
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