Esme Raji Codell Quotes

I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.

Esme Raji Codell

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• I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.

  

  Esme Raji Codell
  • Imagination
  • Madness