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- Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades…
- In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single, homogenous surface, the…
- Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that…
- A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient and meticulous adjustments…
- I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there…
- I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from…
- The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
- My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly…
- ...the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take…
- So began their love, the boy happy and amazed, she happy and not surprised at all (nothing happens by chance to girls). It was the…
- You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the…
- Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak…
- There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say that such a library…
- I could distinguish the shape of her bosom, her arms, her thighs, just as I remember them now, just as now, when the Moon has…
- You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that…
- Renouncing things is less difficult than people believe: it's all a matter of getting started. Once you've succeeded in dispensing with something you thought essential,…
- Don't ask where the rest of this book is!" It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the shelves. "All books…
- Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm; or else someone's gaze, answer, gesture…
- How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to…
- I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle