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Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.

Italo Calvino
Smell, Cairo, Body
Italo Calvino (2013). “Invisible Cities”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.