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Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.

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Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.

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A life in which the gods are not invited is not worth living. It will be quieter, but there won't be any stories.

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Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned

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The unmanifest is much greater than the manifest. The invisible than the visible. The same also with language.

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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again … the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
J. G. Ballard

Roberto Calasso

Roberto Calasso
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Born: May 30, 1941
Died: July 28, 2021 (aged 80)
Bio: Roberto Calasso was an Italian writer and publisher. Apart from his mother tongue, Italian, Calasso was fluent in French, English, Spanish, German. Latin and Greek. He also studied Sanskrit. He was called 'a literary institution of one'.
Known for:
  1. The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (1988)
  2. Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India (1998)
  3. The Art of the Publisher (2015)
  4. The ruin of Kasch (1994)
  5. Literature and the gods (2001)

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