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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than t

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive. – Henry David Thoreau

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We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. – Anne Sullivan Macy

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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination. – Quintilian

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Imagination is the eye of the soul. – Joseph Joubert

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