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Life Quotes by Italo Calvino
- The minute you start saying something, 'Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!' you are already close to view of the person who thinks that…
- Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then carry with you…
- The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
- This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences…
- ...and every Wednesday the perfumed young lady slips me a hundred-crown note to leave her alone with the convict. And by Thursday the hundred crowns…
- ...Life is nothing but trading smells.
- In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions,…
- Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is…
- Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you…
- A person's life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not because it counts…
- You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more…
- I speak and speak,” Marco says, “but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. The description of the world to which you lend…
- I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life…
- I suffer from everyday life.
- I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle