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Living Quotes by Italo Calvino
- The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
- Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices,…
- The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living that has a…
- The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we…
- The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.
- 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…
More Living Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov