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Italo Calvino

“If you think about it, reading is a necessarily individual act, far more than writing. If we assume that writing manages to go beyond the limitations of the author, it will continue to have a meaning only when it is read by a single person and passes through his mental circuits. Only the ability to be read by a given individual proves that what is written shares in the power of writing, a power based on something that goes beyond the individual. The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.”

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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