“Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects of tolerance and respect, if not always affection.”

“Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”

“We are born through a difficult path and we are forced to live through various difficulties. Nothing is ever easy. Difficulties will always be present wherever you are. Whether you like it or not, it will always be there. That's what we think for. It only takes intelligence and imagination to be able to see problems and find ways to solve them.”

“Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.”

“What is greatly desired, but long deferred, gives little pleasure, when at length it is ours, for we have lived with it in imagination until we have grown weary of it, having ourselves, in the meanwhile, become other.”

“The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.”

“We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.”

“we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.”

“Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.”

“It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.”