A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man conte

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942

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With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination? – Iain Sinclair

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To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius – the men of reasoning and the men of imagination. – Isaac DIsraeli

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I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment. – Dean R. Koontz, Seize the Night

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