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Quote by Italo Calvino
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to l

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

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Exile

We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America — as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and were rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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Exile

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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Exile

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned. – James Baldwin

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Exile

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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. – Bell Hooks

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Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. – George Santayana

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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there. РJean Baptiste Moli̬re

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