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Distance Quotes by Italo Calvino
- 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…
- If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.
- Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you…
- 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…
More Distance Quotes
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? — Richard Bach
- Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and… — Emily Greene Balch
- Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous,… — Alan Ball
- We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid. — Ugo Betti
- Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce
- Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. — Theodor Adorno
- It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot.… — Lewis Black
- It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. — Aesop
- Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience… — Bono
- Laughter is the closest distance between two people. — Victor Borge