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Letter "I" » imaginary being
«I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.»
Author: Emo Philips
| About:
Children,
Friends,
Friendship
| Keywords:
imaginary, imaginary being, imaginary friend, kid, The Kid
«Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.»
Author: Marianne Moore
(Poet)
| About:
Art,
Imagination,
Poetry
| Keywords:
Art of, creating, gardens, imaginary, imaginary being, poetry, the art, toads
«Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create even more imaginary obstacles than ignorance can. That's why the smallest step away from speculation and into reality can be an amazing relief. The Reality Solution means: Do it before you're ready.»
Author: Barbara Sher
| Keywords:
amazes, amazing, create, ignorance, imaginary, imaginary being, information, Information the, insurmountable, More information, Obstacles, ready, relief, smallest, solution, speculation, speculations, step, The Amazing, the smallest
«Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
crime, destroying, do no, dread, evacuate, evacuating, Feel the Need, harm, imaginary, imaginary being, infanticide, medicines, mistress, mistresses, Out of the Womb, womb
«This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
casting, characters, Characters in, doubts, excepting, fairy, fiction, folk, imaginary, imaginary being, offend, thereof, The characters, This is a, unwise
«Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
adults, attributed, attributing, formerly, imaginary, imaginary being, The Dead
«We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
actually, imaginary, imaginary being, real life, satisfied, seem, to seem
«He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
climbs, imaginary, imaginary being, laughs, mountains, mountain climbing, tragedies
«The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
aim, alarmed, alarming, alarms, clamorous, endless, hence, hobgoblin, hobgoblins, imaginary, imaginary being, LED, menaced, menaces, menacing, politics, populace, practical, practical politics, safeties, safety, series, The Alarm, The Hobgoblin, The Menace
«Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may and should be brought to that state of mind by all methods, not excluding violence.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Superstition
| Keywords:
excluding, Human sacrifice, imaginary, imaginary being, religious belief, religious beliefs, sacrifices, state of mind
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