H. P. Lovecraft Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Everyday Quotes

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

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There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.

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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

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If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.

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Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.

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Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

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I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

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The mind contains all possibilities.

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In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first cause of his musings,... forgotten. In my case, the primary object was invariably frivolous, although assuming, through the medium of my distempered vision, a refracted and unreal importance.

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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

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Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

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Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.

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People read a lot of stories about witches, fairies, paranormals, and children possessed by evil spirits. They go to films showing rituals featuring pentagrams, swords, and invocations. That's fine, people need to give free reign to their imagination and to go through certain stages. Anyone who gets through those stages without being deceived will eventually get in touch with the Tradition.

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Women alone stir my imagination.

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even The bed of love, that in the imagination Had seemed to be the giver of all peace, Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting, And as soon finished.

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Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.

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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

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For the Eye altering alters all; The Senses roll themselves in fear And the flat Earth becomes a Ball.

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The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

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Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply.

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