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Him Quotes by Italo Calvino
- The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to…
- If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had…
- 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…
- They knew each other. He knew her and so himself, for in truth he had never known himself. And she knew him and so herself,…
- It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.
- I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden