No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once…

Isaac Bashevis Singer
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No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world. ✨ Isaac Bashevis Singer (2004). Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to the Letter Writer
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