Aroosa

“The city is redundant: it repeats itself so that something will stick in the mind.

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Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

“People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“I have not told the half of what I saw.”
― Marco Polo

“Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities