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Image of the quote is loading... SaveSave It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. - Quote by Ezra Pound

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

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