The Sacredness of Life

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In Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, when the Great Khan ask Marco Polo how to escape the inferno towards which civilization directs itself, Polo answers:

“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together”.