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imaginary
«Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while your preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary»
Author: Thomas Betterton
(Actor)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
actors, imaginary, preachers
«If I need a cause for celebrationOr a comfort I can use to ease my mindI rely on my imaginationAnd I dream of an imaginary time.»
Author: Billy Joel
(Pianist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
celebration, celebrations, imaginary, rely, The Celebration
«Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
anticipate, anticipates, condemned, flee, idealize, idealized, idealizing, imaginary, imagining, inhabit, nostalgia, tendency, with nostalgia
«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
«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
«BOUNDARY, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
boundary, boundary line, geography, imaginary, separating
«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
«As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
aspirations, conception, differentiate, differentiated, differentiates, distinguish, historical, imaginary, interests, in private, organism, Parties, party man, private interest, private life, Private Lives, struggles
«If from the top of a long cold barren hill I hear the distant whistle of a thrush which seems to come up from some warm woody shelter beyond the edge of the hill, this sound coming faint over the rocks with a mingled feeling of strangeness and joy, the idea of the place about me, and the imaginary one beyond will all be combined together in such a manner in my mind as to become inseparable.»
