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It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many european countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and abstruse books of philosophy.
-Czeslaw Milosz
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Czeslaw Milosz
It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many european countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and abstruse books of philosophy.
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