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Now that he is no longer here I should be interested in so many things: philosophy, politics, history. I follow the news, read books, but they befuddle me. What he meant to say is not there, for he understood something else, something that was all-embracing, and he could not say it in words but only by living as he did.Italo Calvino
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That wish to enter into an elusive element which had urged Cosimo into the trees, was still working now inside him unsatisfied, making him long for a more intimate link, a relationship which would bind him to each leaf and twig and feather and flutter.Italo Calvino
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Her breast was young, the nipples rosy. Cosimo just grazed it with his lips, before Viola slid away over the branches as if she were flying, with him clambering after her, and that skirt of hers always in his faceItalo Calvino
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Why d’you make me suffer?"“ Because I love you.” Now it was his turn to get angry. “No, no, you don’t love me! People in love want happiness, not pain! ”“ People in love want only love, even at the cost of pain.”“ Then you’re making people suffer on purpose.”“ Yes, to see if you love me.” The Baron’s philosophy would not go any further. “Pain is a negative state of the soul.” “Love is all.” “Pain should always be fought against.”“ Love refuses nothing.”“ Some things I’ll never admit.”“ Oh yes, you do, now, for you love me and you suffer.Italo Calvino
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We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.Italo Calvino