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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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In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.
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When I got cut from the varsity team as a sophomore in high school, I learned something. I knew I never wanted…
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I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some…
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Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you…
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A Marine is a Marine. I set that policy two weeks ago - there's no such thing as a former Marine. You're…
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What I set seems to never extinguish
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I set a personal record on Christmas. I got my shopping done three weeks ahead of time. I had all the presents…
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If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence…
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In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of…
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I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence.
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