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Italo Calvino

“In addition there is the fact that this girl's application in drawing seashells denotes in her a search for formal perfection which the world can and therefore must attain; I, on the contrary, have been convinced for some time that perfection is not produced except marginally and by chance; Therefore it deserves no interest at all, the true nature of things being revealed only in disintegration.”

Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
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