If one starts to draw comparisons between what is and what is not, it is the poorer qualities of the former that strike — Italo Calvino, The Complete Cosmicomics
If one starts to draw comparisons between what is and what is not, it is the poorer qualities of the former that strike — Italo Calvino, The Complete Cosmicomics
If one starts to draw comparisons between what is and what is not, it is the poorer qualities of the former that strike — Italo Calvino, The Complete Cosmicomics
If one starts to draw comparisons between what is and what is not, it is the poorer qualities of the former that strike — Italo Calvino, The Complete Cosmicomics
If one starts to draw comparisons between what is and what is not, it is the poorer qualities of the former that strike — Italo Calvino, The Complete Cosmicomics
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If one starts to draw comparisons between what is and what is not, it is the poorer qualities of the former that strike you, the impurities, the flaws; in short, you can only really feel safe with nothingness.

— Italo Calvino, The Complete Cosmicomics
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