209 Quotes About Magical-realism
- Author Jostein Gaarder
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Perhaps we aren’t fully developed. The physical development of human beings necessarily had to precede the psychological. Perhaps the physical nature of the universe is merely a necessary external material for its own self-awareness.
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- Author Shokoofeh Azar
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It's life's failure and its deficiencies that make someone a daydreamer. I don't understand why prophets and philosophers didn't see the significance in that. I think imagination is at the heart of reality, or at least, is the immediate definition and interpretation of reality.
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- Author Carla Reighard
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You are never too old to have an active imagination.
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- Author Joanne Harris
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Come to me in love, Love. Come to me in love.
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- Author Josten Gaarder
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The truth is that I feel like a ghost already, and I have to catch my breath each time I think about it. I begin to understand why ghosts go in for so much sighing and hooting. It's not to scare their descendants. It's just that they find it so hard to breathe in a time other than their own.We don't only have a place in existence. We also have an allotted span.That's the way things are, and all I can do is extrapolate from what's around me now.
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- Author Jostein Gaarder
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She was a stranger. She came from a more beautiful fairytale than ours. But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people sometimes call ‘the monotony of life.’ Until that moment I’d been completely ignorant of such missionary work. I’d thoughts there was only two types people at least. There was the Orange Girl, and there were the rest of us.
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- Author Jostein Gaarder
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I can wait until my heart bleeds with sorrow.
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- Author Jostein Gaarder
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But what is a person, George? How much is a person worth? Are we nothing but dust that is whipped up and spread to the winds?
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- Author Jostein Gaarder
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Look at the world, Georg, look at the world before you've filled yourself with too much physics and chemistry.
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