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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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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils.…
— Isaiah Berlin
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While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason,…
— Ethan Allen
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Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it.…
— Richard Dawkins
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Ruth and I are happily incompatible.
— Billy Graham
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Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.
— Vera Brittain
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Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony
— John Stott
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It's good to be incompatible with your partner sometimes. It causes your souls to stretch & grow - the point of a…
— Judith Orloff
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Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.
— Robert Breault
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Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most…
— Thomas Jefferson
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...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan,…
— Jacques Monod
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Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Honesty is incompatible with amassing a large fortune.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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