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Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre
Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of his

Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. – Jean-Paul Sartre

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