"When you’re young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy the fact of being there on the rock, flat mollusk-pulp, damp and happy. If you compare yourself with the limitations that came afterwards, if you think of how having one form excludes the other forms, of the monotonous routine where you finally feel trapped, well, I don’t mind saying life was beautiful in those days."

— Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics (1965)

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