"Metaphor is [...] the means whereby the truly new, rather than just the novel (novelty), may come about" p. 179
"imagination [...] enables us to take things back from the world of the left hemisphere and make them live again in the right. It is in this way, not by meretricious novelty, that things are made truly new once again" p. 199
"I would connect the rise of the concept of boredom with an essentially passive view of experience; a view of vitality as mediated by novelty
[...] When we are bored, our attitude toward time is altered [...] there is no distinction between past, present and future." p. 336
"Breaking out of it [the deadening effect of the familiar] requires the work of the imagination – not fantasy which makes things novel novelty, but imagination that actually makes them new, alive once more." p. 374f
"Newness would come from the imagination, which reconnects us with whatever it is that exists apart from ourselves: all that is open to the left hemisphere acting alone is novelty" p. 400
"The left hemisphere ‘creates’ newness by recombining in a novel (novelty) fashion what is already known, not as imagination does, by allowing something that we thought we knew to be truly revealed for the first time" p. 408
"Newness (seeing afresh what one thought of as familiar, as though for the first time – the patient process of Romanticism) and novelty (deliberately disturbing the representation of reality in an attempt to ‘shock’ oneself into something that feels unfamiliar) are contrary concepts.
[...] ‘originality is antithetical to novelty’
[...] it is precisely the striving for novelty that leads to banality" p. 412f