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“also in raissa, city of sadness, there runs an invisible thread that binds one living being to another for a moment, then unravels, then is stretched again between moving points as it draws new and rapid patterns so that every second the unhappy city contains a happy city unaware of its own existence”

contrary to popular belief i still know how to read in italian

"You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead out-number the living. And the mind refuses to accept more faces, more expressions,"