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Quote by Thomas Merton
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imaginat

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness. – Thomas Merton

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We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us. – Thomas Merton

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. – Thomas Merton

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What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. – Kerry Thornley

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Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses. – David E. Kelley

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I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening. – Jerzy Kosinski

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The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience – anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form. – Carol Ann Duffy

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