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Italo Calvino

“Your relationship with objects is selective, personal; only the things you feel yours become yours: it is a relationship with the physicality of things, not with an intellectual or affective idea that takes the place of seeing them and touching them. And once they are attached to you, marked by your possession, the objects no longer seem to be there by chance, they assume meaning as elements of a discourse, like a memory composed of signals and emblems.”

Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
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