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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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The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.
— Italo Calvino
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I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes of people…
— John F. Kerry
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Not completely, but neither of us gets mad when the other doesn't text back or call. Life's super-busy. Obviously you know what…
— Jennifer Lawrence
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My boyfriend and I don't get to live in the same city all the time, and the fact that I can text…
— Jane Levy
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You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same…
— Benjamin Netanyahu
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My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or…
— Marjane Satrapi
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When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was…
— Jane Smiley
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Knowing they were in the same city again made the missing him flare up inside her. In her stomach. Why were people…
— Rainbow Rowell
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