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Quote by Victor Hugo
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is t

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. – Victor Hugo

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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. – Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. – Victor Hugo

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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. – Victor Hugo

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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. – Carl Clinton Van Doren

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The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. – Frank Barron, Think, November-December 1962

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My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical. – Michael Tippett

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I wouldnt say that Ive had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination. – Duncan Sheik

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