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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.


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

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



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.

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.



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.

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.



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.

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.



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.

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.



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

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



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

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.



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

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



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

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





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I do know the Bible very well from a Protestant point of view - which is what, along with my reason, entitles me to refute it. You can't rationally reject something until you know all about it.



And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.

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Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.

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