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"The city appears to you as a whole in which no desire is lost and of which you are a part, and since it itself enjoys everything that you do not enjoy, all you have to do is live this desire and to be happy with it. Such is the power, which some say evil, others beneficial, of Anastasia, the deceptive city: if eight hours a day you work as a cutter of agates, onyx, chrysophrases, your pain which gives shape to desire takes itself its form, and you think you are enjoying Anastasia when you are only her slave " Italo Calvino, Invisible cities.