Quotation by

William Godwin

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

William Godwin

Imagination

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William Godwin is saying that imagination needs space to work by allowing us to think about many things beyond what we directly see or experience. This means understanding and picturing ideas or events that are not physically present or observed.

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