"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.“


-Johan Huizinga

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Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

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