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The richer your imagination, the poorer you feel.

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec

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Do not expect too much of the end of the world.

Foucault's Pendulum (1989)

The window on the world can be covered by a newspaper.

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Unkempt Thoughts (1957)

Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.

Unkempt Thoughts (1957)

Those who are ahead of their time often have to wait for it in uncomfortable quarters.

Power for the World (2010)

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Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

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There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

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An active imagination may find a bad tendency arising out of every transaction between imperfect morals.

Edward Hall Alderson Brownlow v. Egerton (1854)

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

David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)

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