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“L'umano arriva dove arriva l'amore, non ha confini se non quelli che gli diamo.”
― Italo Calvino, La giornata d'uno scrutatore

“I should like to be the sun. And you can be the moon.’
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‘But then we’d never see each other.’
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‘Not so, young one. The moon shines because of the sun, you know. Because the sun's always there. Just like me.”
― Velvetoscar, Young & Beautiful

“My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains? Oh! what hours of transport we shall spend! And when we do return, it shall not be like other travellers, without being able to give one accurate idea of any thing. We will know where we have gone -- we will recollect what we have seen. Lakes, mountains, and rivers shall not be jumbled together in our imaginations; nor, when we attempt to describe any particular scene, will we begin quarrelling about its relative situation. Let our first effusions be less insupportable than those of the generality of travellers.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“It was one of those golden autumn afternoons and there were blackberries and splashes of old man's beard in the hedges, and the hawthorn berries were ripening scarlet for the birds when the cold winter came along. There were tall trees here and there on either side, oak and sycamore and ash and occasionally a sweet chestnut.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda