The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.
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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.Italo Calvino
The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
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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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Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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