They knew each other. He knew her and so himself, for in truth he had never known himself. And she knew him and so herself, for although she had alwa… - Italo Calvino

And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able to recognize it until now.

Perinthia's astronomers are faced with a difficult choice. Either they must admit that all their calculations are wrong and their figures are unable to describe the heavens, or else they must reveal that the order of the gods is reflected exactly in the city of monsters.

Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could end only in tow ways: having passed all the tests, the hero and the heroine married, or else they died. The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

One reads alone, even in another's presence.