[E]verything is the work of imagination, and... all the faculties of the soul can be correctly reduced to pure imagination... (Julien Offray de La Mettrie)

[E]verything is the work of imagination, and... all the faculties of the soul can be correctly reduced to pure imagination...

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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