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Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what without this book he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
Quotes By Thomas Merton
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October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin...
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We have what we seek it is there all the time and if we give it time it...
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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It...
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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and...
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In the last analysis the individual person is responsible for living his own...
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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two...
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Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in...
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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations...
Quotes About Imagination
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Imagination is not something apart and hermetic not a way of leaving reality...
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With the brush we merely tint while the imagination alone produces colour.
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Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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Sometimes surely truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence to love...
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The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character...
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I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer...
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the...