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Quote by Lawrence Durrell
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential – the imagination. – Lawrence Durrell

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I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time – those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything. – Lawrence Durrell

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Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother? – Ernst Toller

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There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen. – Sean OFaolain

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Ideas seem to come from everywhere – my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination. – Judy Blume

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Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is. – Yvonne Craig

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