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— William Butler Yeats"What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible."
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Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.
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