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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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We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
— Thomas Browne
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In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that…
— David Cameron
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We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.
— Rumi
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We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.
— John Cage
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I look at sport and competition as something that has been personally enormously beneficial to me. It's helped me create life skills.…
— Unknown Author
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We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence,…
— Henry Lawson
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
— Tertullian
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We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.
— Jerome Bruner
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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's…
— Italo Calvino
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Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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We carry within ourselves the direction our lives will take. Within ourselves burn the timeless, fateful stars.
— Antal Szerb
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Here's a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just look at me, against…
— Tupac Shakur
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