"As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs."
-Joseph Conrad
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"Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.“
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"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
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"Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends."
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"A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth."
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"The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power."
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"Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging 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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"One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?"
-Francis Cabot Lowell
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