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Imagination Quotes by Marcel Proust
- Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
- The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is…
- A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have…
- The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.
- It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a…
- Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
- This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that is to say…
- But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.
- Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination
More Imagination Quotes
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
- Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what… — Francis Bacon
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
- It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey
- Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
- I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. — J. G. Ballard
- The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely… — J. G. Ballard
- I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination. — Eric Bana