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Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.
Italo Calvino
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Italo Calvino
Age: 62 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 15
Died: 1985
Died: September 19
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My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it.
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A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.
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Falsehood is never in words it is in things.
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