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Italo Calvino Quotes: Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.
         

Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.


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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.



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The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves



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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.



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Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?



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