Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege…

W. Somerset Maugham
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Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it. ✨ W. Somerset Maugham (1954). Mr. Maugham Himself
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