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

Quote by Italo Calvino

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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.

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.

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one...

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one...

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities...

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities...

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

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

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the...

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the...

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places...

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places...

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he...

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he...