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• Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

  Clarence Day
  American author and cartoonist (1874 - 1935)
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• The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

  Marquis de Sade
  French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• accumulating
• imagination
• everything
• pleasures
• depends
• those

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