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“Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again…, only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.” quote by Asger Jorn — Download Open image

“Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again…, only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.”

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