Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
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The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
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