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“ your cities do not exist. Perhaps they’ve never existed and assure they will never exist again. Why do you amuse yourself with consolatory fables? I know well that my empire is rotting like a corpse in a swamp who’s contagion infects the crows that peck it as well as the bamboo that grows fertilized by its humors. Why do you not speak to me of this?”

"O viajante reconhece o pouco que é seu descobrindo o muito que não teve e o que não terá."

Kublai Khan remains silent, reflecting. Then he adds: 'Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.'
Polo answers: 'Without stones there is no arch.

“There is no language without deceit”