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Things Quotes by Italo Calvino
- The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
- 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…
- It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the…
- The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is…
- Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.
- ...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…
- So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really, as they say, the enjoyment of new and different things, and not, instead, the…
- Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?
- Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is…
- Renouncing things is less difficult than people believe: it's all a matter of getting started. Once you've succeeded in dispensing with something you thought essential,…
- I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.
- How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle