Class Quote by Gunter Grass

“Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.”

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Class Exception Individual Mass Melancholy Mind Phenomenon Privilege Psychology Sad State of mind

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