Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a … - Italo Calvino

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It's not dependency that creates your future. It's independence that creates your better future.

Italo Calvino

Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.

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Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.

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It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.

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