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"Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence."
- Fuseli, Henry

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35870">Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2684/">Fuseli, Henry</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/subject/senses/">Senses</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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