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History is a big word...History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.

— Antonio Tabucchi Sostiene Pereira (1994)

Storia è una parola grossa...non è una bestia che si può addomesticare.

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Stop haunting your past and try to drop in on the future.

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Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.

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Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.

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