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Johan Huizinga - Every age yearns for a more beautiful...
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)

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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