Calvino - Invisible Cities
Without the stones there is no arch.
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Italo Calvino
Jorge Luis Borges
Borges - Death and the Compass
Possible, but not interesting.
Herman Melville
Melville - Moby Dick, Ch. 93
The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though.
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare - King Lear, Act 5, Scene 3
Come, let’s away to prison. We two alone will sing like birds i’ th’ cage.