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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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When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if…
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
— Irving Layton
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Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.
— Clinton D. McKinnon
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Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
— Will Durant
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If a cat had a halo, it would probably wear it around it's tail. It makes a statement.
— Sergio Aragones
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We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We were bent…
— Harold Nicolson
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My soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love. Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs,…
— Rumi
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My life is full of broken halos.
— Keith Richards
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And a face above mine, white and beautiful, eyes as large as the moon. You saved me. A hand on my cheek,…
— Lauren Oliver
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Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and…
— Arthur W. Pink
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What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
— Christopher Fry
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