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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and i

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. – Samuel Johnson

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I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society. – Samuel Johnson

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

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Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop. – Marcello Mastroianni

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You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you cant imagine something that has never existed before, its impossible. – Rita Dove

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No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. – Edward Hopper

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