Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.

If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.

The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.

For the man who thought he was Man there is no salvation.

I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party.

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...Life is nothing but trading smells.