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A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people. If this is not the case, then humanity becomes _ as it is already to a large extent _ no more than a rabbit-warren. But this is no longer a __ree-range_ warren but a __attery_ one, in the conditions of artificiality in which it lives, with artificial light and chemical feed.

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Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985

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It was strange to see the keenness with which men had tried to order, constrain, and systematize human passions, jealousy, rage, violent death, accusations. That was the justice system (...): the absurd pretension that human nature could be dominated by the power of the law. Reducing it all to a summary of a few pages, organizing the facts, judging it, archiving it, and forgetting it. That simple. And yet in the silence of that place you could hear the murmur of the written words, of the key players, the screams of the victims, the hatred never forgotten by either party, the pain that never went away.