"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.“


-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

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