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Quote by James Thomson
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers? – James Thomson

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I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence? – James Thomson

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That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. – James Thomson

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Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction. – Marquis de Sade

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That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. – George Berkeley

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To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination. – Donald Sutherland

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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction. – Yann Martel

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