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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 29469 |
| QUOTATION: | Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Johan Huizinga (1872–1945), Dutch historian. The Autumn of the Middle Ages, ch. 2 (1921, trans. 1995). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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