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Turns Quotes by Italo Calvino
- Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one could foresee. Play…
- The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living that has a…
- The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the…
- There is still one of which you never speak.' Marco Polo bowed his head. 'Venice,' the Khan said. Marco smiled. 'What else do you believe…
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- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
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