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It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.


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The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves



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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.



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The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.



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Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?



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