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Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Writer
Jicin
Feast
Forest
Shade
Forests
Tree
Imagination
Turns
Right

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