There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to …– A. S. Byatt
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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