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"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."
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"One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible."
"One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind."
Mind,
"Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen."
"Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly."
"I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch."
"Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance."
Exlpore more Imagination quotes
"Science does not know its debt to imagination."
"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."
"Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute."
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."
"I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings."
"The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older."
"At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration."
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