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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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And if we even affirm that He was born of a virgin, accept this in common with what you accept of Perseus.
— Justin Martyr
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Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into…
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THAT Perseus always won. That's why my momhad named me after him, even if he was son of Zeus ann I was…
— Rick Riordan
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Will you remember that? Anywhere you are, if you can look up and find Perseus in the sky, find that smile, and…
— Paullina Simons
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Perseus, you are not the hero.
— Rick Riordan
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For the rest of my life I would always be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest what if. -Perseus…
— Rick Riordan
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If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I…
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Earthshaker, Stormbreaker, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God
— Rick Riordan
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I was five steps away when he called, "Perseus." I turned. There was a different light in his eyes, a fiery kind…
— Rick Riordan
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Basically, Apollo was more of a mediator between Zeus in Olympus and Perseus on Earth. He played much more of an active…
— Luke Evans
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You may not want to be a god, Perseus, but after feats like yours, men will worship you. Be good to them.…
— Zeus
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I would be the simple fisherman in Perseus village. He lives a quiet life, brings in crab pots and is extremely happy.
— Sam Worthington
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