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Quote by Cesare Pavese
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? – Cesare Pavese

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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love — any love — reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness. – Cesare Pavese

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We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination. – Patty Duke

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I cant work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth and then I can fly free. – Andrew Wyeth

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