quotes about Imaginary
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
-- A. J. P. TaylorSource : Origins of the Second World War (1962) ch. 2
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I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.
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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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The imaginary is what tends to become real.
-- Andre BretonSource : The White-Haired Revolver (1932)
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The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary
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My imaginary friends have become my imaginary children.
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The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.
-- Claire Forlani -
Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.
-- Clifford D. SimakSource : Clifford D. Simak (2015). “Highway of Eternity”, p.158, Open Road Media
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And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.
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If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.
-- Don Herold -
Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.
-- Douglas Coupland -
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The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary.
-- Gregg Braden -
Anything that you have imposed on yourself to be unhappy, to be bound, is a concept. It is an imaginary concept, so give it away.
-- H. W. L. PoonjaSource : H. W.L. Poonja (2007). “Wake Up and Roar”, p.35, Sounds True
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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.
-- John Scalzi -
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All the literati keep at least one imaginary friend.
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Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.
-- Josephine HartSource : Josephine Hart (1999). “The Stillest Day”, Overlook Books
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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
-- Kabir -
I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head.
-- Lee Ryan -
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What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives.
-- Lisel Mueller -
Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.
-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine -
what is an imaginary friend? are there also imaginary enemies?
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The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach -
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I can't even trust my own imaginary dog. How much lower can a person get?
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I used to have an imaginary friend named Michael.
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Atreyu comes from a land called Fantasia. It's an imaginary land.
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How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do.
-- Penn Jillette -
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Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.
-- Peter JacksonSource : "Peter Jackson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 11, 2009.
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What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you.
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Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.
-- Sanford Meisner -
Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.
-- Sanford MeisnerSource : Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.128, Vintage
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Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.
-- Seth Godin -
To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.
-- Stefan Molyneux -
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My music has to do with imaginary things, so I took that concept and used the whole "the music is not the truth" mantra as a way to market myself.
-- Mister Lies -
The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.
-- Roger Scruton -
We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.
-- Francesc Ferrer i Guardia -