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If you talk to the shadows,
at least you know them well
and the words, all of them,
unfold themselves with ease
on muddled walls and streets,
when dusk comes on.

— Fausto Cercignani Examples of self-translation (2004)

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Every human relationship implies compromises, but the limit to any compromise is one’s own dignity.

They do not speak of boundless skies,
of passing loves like silver clouds.
They speak of cheerless towns, unwound:
on hazy moors of muffled music.

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