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G C Lichtenberg: The pleasures of...

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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Source: Aphorisms, Notebook C, aph. 38 (written 1765-99; tr. by R. J. Hollingdale, 1990).
-- G C Lichtenberg, (Jul 1 1742-1799), German physicist, writer; He is best known for his satirical wit ridiculing metaphysical and romantic excesses.


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