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To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination. I no longer think of imagination as a thing to be dreaded.

— Cynthia Ozick Interview with The Paris Review (1987)

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Metaphor is the reciprocal agent, the universalizing force: it makes possible the power to envision the stranger's heart.

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It is useless either to hate or to love truth - but it should be noticed.

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Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

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