I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's. ✨ William Bla…

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I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's. ✨ William Blake, Morton D. Paley (1998). Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion, p.144, Princeton University Press
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