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Arthur Schopenhauer

"For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it."

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"For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it."

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