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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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Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than…
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Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that…
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Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.
— Unknown Author
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From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans…
— Gretel Ehrlich
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Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own…
— Clifford Geertz
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My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people,…
— Italo Calvino
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Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.
— Frantz Fanon
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So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. I had not intended to…
— Haruki Murakami
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Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.
— Paul Singer
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Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other…
— Chiboy Amobi
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