The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance. (Pierre Schaeffer)

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

Pierre Schaeffer

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