*quotes from Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities”

“Cities also believe they are the work of the mind or of chance, but neither the one nor the other suffices to hold up their walls.”

“You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in answer it gives to a question of yours.”

“The city is redundant: it repeats itself so that something will stick in the mind.”

“Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.”

“The city must never be confused with the words that describe it.”

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