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Us Quotes by Italo Calvino
- Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
- Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to…
- Memory really matters...only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us to act without…
- 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…
- Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you…
- There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say that such a library…
- Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space in which to…
- 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…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — 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
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong