“At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world.”
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“I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.”
Quoted in interview, The Paris Review (Fall 1965)
Context: You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

“The real world is much smaller than the imaginary”

Kant's Inaugural Dissertation (1770), Section IV On The Principle Of The Form Of The Intelligible World

As he said in the Greek parliament
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqZeImBRWjc