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Leopardi once said that children can find everything in nothing, but adults cannot find anything in everything. Depending on how you look at them, paradoxes are either fragments of nothingness in which you can find everything, or visions of everything in which you can find nothing.

— Piergiorgio Odifreddi

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Galileo Galilei was the greatest writer in Italian literature: that's not me saying it, it's Italo Calvino.

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