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Quote by Italo Calvino
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the regio

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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