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Day Quotes by Italo Calvino
- 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…
- Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into dreams or the…
- I speak and speak,” Marco says, “but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. The description of the world to which you lend…
- what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that changed gradually…
- Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.
- I spend 12 hours a day reading on most days of the year.
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- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
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- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong