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Dance Quote by Angela Carter

“This dance was the dance of death. [The clowns] danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they might witness their own wretchedness.” quote by Angela Carter — Download Open image

“This dance was the dance of death. [The clowns] danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they might witness their own wretchedness.”

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