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The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it all the past as well as all the future.

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Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiratio...more

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But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind.

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Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of ...more

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Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can c...more

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The mind of man is capable of anything.

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The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorr...more

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It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.

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Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him...more

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?