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Barbarism is needed...

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

Source: From an Internet collection of quotations.
-- Edmond de Goncourt, (May 26 1822-1896), French diarist; He collaborated on social histories and novels with his brother Jules, e.g., Madame Bervaisais, 1869.


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