Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it tu…

Karl Kraus
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Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest. ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
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Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest. ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

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