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Them Quotes by Italo Calvino
- It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to…
- Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing…
- In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single, homogenous surface, the…
- If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is…
- My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly…
- 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 people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take…
- I had fallen in love. What I mean is: I had begun to recognize, to isolate the signs of one of those from the others,…
- I could distinguish the shape of her bosom, her arms, her thighs, just as I remember them now, just as now, when the Moon has…
- seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space
- Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.
- The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an…
- Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually…
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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