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John Ruskin Quotes: The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.
         

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.


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