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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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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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Myths, Mythology
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Italo Calvino
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The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. – Italo Calvino

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Books
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Exile
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For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn. – Oscar Wilde

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Exile

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing. – Cyril Connolly

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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

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

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We are equally glad and surprised at Winstons return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure. – Shane Leslie

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Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. – Pearl S. Buck

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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. – William Hazlitt

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Im famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You cant count on it. – Dave Chappelle

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famous