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A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.

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C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
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