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Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination ; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality , but the means by which he accedes to it . His reverie is purposeful .
Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination ; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality , but the means by which he accedes to it . His reverie is purposeful .
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Their disorderly existence was a lure to the imagination in the Age of Reason and the heroic parts they played , the verse they spoke . invested them with a halo . In Goethe's Wilhelm Meister , that wonderful and neglected book ...
Their disorderly existence was a lure to the imagination in the Age of Reason and the heroic parts they played , the verse they spoke . invested them with a halo . In Goethe's Wilhelm Meister , that wonderful and neglected book ...
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Most people have little imagination and they do not suffer from circum - 2 stances that to the imaginative would be unbearable . The lack of privacy , to take an instance , in which the very poor live seems frightful to us who value it ...
Most people have little imagination and they do not suffer from circum - 2 stances that to the imaginative would be unbearable . The lack of privacy , to take an instance , in which the very poor live seems frightful to us who value it ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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