“The imaginary is what tends to become real.”
“When the real and the imaginary become indistinguishable the real becomes a fetish.”
“Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them.”
“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
“Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.”
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”