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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside u

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than ones mothers womb. – Italo Calvino

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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. – Italo Calvino

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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following ones nose, taking shortcuts. – Italo Calvino

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. – Italo Calvino

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City Life, Cities
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words…. Be not the slave of Words… – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh, 1

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