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“I couldn’t say just when I began to notice this; you see so many things without paying attention to them; maybe these things you see have an effect on you but you aren’t aware of it; and then you begin to connect one thing with the other and suddenly it all takes on meaning.”
― Italo Calvino, Difficult Loves

“Everybody knew that if she had not left, Federico de la Fe would be a maize and bean farmer—not a war commander. No need to rise against the solar system when you have plenty of crops and a beautiful wife.”
― Salvador Plascencia

“There are those who condemn themselves to the most gray, mediocre life because they have suffered some grief, some misfortune; but there are also those who do the same thing because their good fortune is greater than they feel they can sustain.”
― Italo Calvino, Difficult Loves

“I can't bear to be the center of attention like that. I go bright red immediately and have to retreat, and yet, I crave it — it's what I daydream about all day long! I don't know.”
― Hannah Regel