"If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry."

Family, Poetry, Mankind, Reason

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"If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry."

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