"Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which……" — Giorgio de Chirico
"Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only rare individuals may see in moments of clairvoyance and metaphysical abstraction."
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Giorgio de Chirico
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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
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