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Page 11
... imagination ; despair is easy to me , and every sensation reverberates again and again within me . What might be , spoils for me what is . What ought to be con- sumes me with sadness . So the reality , the present , the irreparable ...
... imagination ; despair is easy to me , and every sensation reverberates again and again within me . What might be , spoils for me what is . What ought to be con- sumes me with sadness . So the reality , the present , the irreparable ...
Page 139
... Imagination trans- forms him , and he is able to play the most varied parts with credit , among them even that of the pure logician . But as the imagination is his intellectual axis - his master faculty - he is , as it were , in all his ...
... Imagination trans- forms him , and he is able to play the most varied parts with credit , among them even that of the pure logician . But as the imagination is his intellectual axis - his master faculty - he is , as it were , in all his ...
Page 253
... imagination ! December 3 , 1872. - What a strange dream ! I was under an illusion and yet not under it ; I was playing a comedy to myself , deceiving my imagination without being able to deceive my consciousness . This power which ...
... imagination ! December 3 , 1872. - What a strange dream ! I was under an illusion and yet not under it ; I was playing a comedy to myself , deceiving my imagination without being able to deceive my consciousness . This power which ...
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