Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. (Edmond de Goncourt)

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

Edmond de Goncourt

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