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Now, the old man happened to be the Lord.


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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.



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Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.



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A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.



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I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.



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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.



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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.



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

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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I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.





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