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“Irene is a name for a city in the distance, and if you approach, it changes. For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave. There is the city where you arrive for the first time; and there is another city which you leave never to return. Each deserves a different name; perhaps I have already spoken of Irene under other names; perhaps I have spoken only of Irene.

— Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

“A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.”
― Emily Dickinson

“To write is human, to receive a letter: Divine!”
― Susan Lendroth

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis