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. . .the real world is much smaller than the imaginary.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

Edgar Watson Howe

I wanted to create a hill indoors. This is the only imaginary landscape [in the exhibit].

Maya Lin

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

A. J. P. Taylor

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas S. Szasz

Maybe that's all that family really is, a group of people who all miss the same imaginary place.

Zach Braff

Imaginary evils are incurable.

Marie Von Ebner eschenbach

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy of opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

Ambrose Bierce

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

Simone Weil

Humility is not an imaginary thing.

Julio Iglesias

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Marianne Moore

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

Richard Jeni

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

Andre Breton

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

Hannes Alfven

ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.

Ambrose Bierce

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else -- an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.

Georges Bataille

An imaginary friend is often what the child needs it to be.

Barbara Goldstein

It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.

Dorothy Dix

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

Emo Phillips