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William Butler Yeats Quotes: Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
         

Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.


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