Imagination Quotes

The ability to see what isn't there yet. Dreamers and builders on the power of 'what if.'

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"The imagination transforms suffering into meaning."
Elsa Morante
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"We live in the stories we tell ourselves."
Cesare Pavese
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"The future belongs to those who can imagine it most vividly."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"Imagination is the only freedom that cannot be taken away."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"We must learn to see the world as children do—with wonder and without prejudice."
Elio Vittorini
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"Imagination is the only weapon that tyranny truly fears."
Elio Vittorini
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"One must maintain one's curiosity until the end."
Primo Levi
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"The world needs dreamers more than it needs realists."
Dino Buzzati
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"Imagination is the bridge between what is and what could be."
Dino Buzzati
"Imagination is the only weapon against the monotony of existence."
Italo Svevo
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"The imagination is humanity's greatest tool for understanding itself."
Elsa Morante
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"Narrative is a kind of play that children do by themselves."
Umberto Eco
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
Umberto Eco
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Umberto Eco
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"The imagination is the last territory the powerful cannot fully colonize."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"The imagination can travel where the body cannot."
Primo Levi
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"The invisible city is the one that cannot be forgotten."
Italo Calvino
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"The catalog of forms is endless; until every figure has found its city, new cities will continue to be discovered."
Italo Calvino
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"The task of literature is to think of what never has been thought before."
Italo Calvino
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"In the space of the mind, there is no distance."
Italo Calvino
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"Imagination is memory without fidelity."
Italo Calvino
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"The world is a combination of possible worlds."
Italo Calvino
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"Every city contains the seed of all possible cities."
Italo Calvino
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"Cities are alive in the descriptions we make of them."
Italo Calvino
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"The story continues in the reader's imagination."
Italo Calvino
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"The invisible is more real than the visible."
Italo Calvino
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"The city exists in the spaces between buildings."
Italo Calvino
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"Cities are dreams that people dreamed into being."
Italo Calvino
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"The imagination is the only space where the powerless can truly reign."
Elsa Morante
"Imagination is the refuge of the desperate"
Italo Svevo