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Italo Calvino has 179 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
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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…
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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the…
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The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
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The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced…
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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking…
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It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors,…
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The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result…
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The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.
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The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. And history, in America, is a dish best served…
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The minute you start saying something, 'Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!' you are already close to view of the person…
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Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.
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In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.
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I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers,…
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Just because I am a chef doesn't mean I don't rely on fast recipes. Indeed, we all have moments when, pressed for…
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My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my…
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Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but…
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