It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
Robert South
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. -
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