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"Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries."
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"Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion."
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