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Quote by Italo Calvino
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The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. – Italo Calvino

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I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume. – Italo Calvino

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Modern, Modernism
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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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The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city. – Italo Calvino

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Youre an expatriate. Youve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around caf?s. – Ernest Hemingway

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I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile. – Pope Gregory VII

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Exile

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. – Henry James

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Exile

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. – Nadine Gordimer

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