Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Blaise Pascal
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
Let but a single flash of reality -- the glimpse of
a woman from afar or from behind -- enable us to project the image of Beauty
before our eyes, and we imagine that we have recognised it, our hearts beat, and
we will always remain half-persuaded that it was She, provided that the woman
has vanished: it is only if we manage to overtake her that we realise our
mistake.