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Though I leave the house as little as possible, I have the impression that someone is disturbing my papers. More than once I have discovered that some pages were missing from my manuscripts. A few days afterward I would find the pages in their place again. But often I no longer recognize my manuscripts, as if I had forgotten what I had written, or as if overnight I were so changed that no longer recognized myself in the self of yesterday.
Though I leave the house as little as possible, I have the impression that someone is disturbing my papers. More than once I have discovered that some pages were missing from my manuscripts. A few days afterward I would find the pages in their place again. But often I no longer recognize my manuscripts, as if I had forgotten what I had written, or as if overnight I were so changed that no longer recognized myself in the self of yesterday.
Approximate author period: c. 1954 AD · modern
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- Italo Calvino
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- Approximate author period: c. 1954 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1923 to 1985; Wikidata Q154756, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q154756 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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