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Why did Calvino write the cosmicomic stories? The main reason was that he felt that realist fiction was exhausted and that the writer had to turn elsewhere for inspiration. For Calvino in the early 1960s this place was science, initially
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“It is strange how loud little sounds become when you are in the dark and doing something wrong.”
― How Green Was My Valley
― How Green Was My Valley
“Youth is the age of despairs.”
― The Alexandria Quartet
― The Alexandria Quartet
“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”
― The Shining
― The Shining
“Who says paper worlds
Are an escape from what is real?
As though the lives trapped in their binding
Are not ones that make you feel.
For sometimes our greatest lessons
Come from those with ink for skin,
Who reach beyond the page
To take our hand and pull us in.”
―
Are an escape from what is real?
As though the lives trapped in their binding
Are not ones that make you feel.
For sometimes our greatest lessons
Come from those with ink for skin,
Who reach beyond the page
To take our hand and pull us in.”
―
“I realized then the truth about all love: that it is an absolute which takes all or forfeits all. The other feelings, compassion, tenderness and so on, exist only on the periphery and belong on the constructions of society and habit. But she herself- austere and merciless Aphrodite-is a pagan. it is not our brains or instincts which she picks-but our very bones.”
― The Alexandria Quartet
― The Alexandria Quartet
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