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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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No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird…
— Francois Fenelon
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Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.
— Alan Watts
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To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.
— Dogen
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The fact that cultures are failing all over the world means that they don't know how to operate a society to make…
— Jacque Fresco
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The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.
— Swami Vivekananda
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To be compassionate in this hurting world means it will cost you something.
— Wess Stafford
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A # sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.
— Italo Calvino
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We walk, and our religion is shown even to the dullest and most insensitive person in how we walk. Or to put…
— Reginald Horace Blyth
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Now, you believe you are a material person dabbling with. But essentially, you are a spiritual being dabbling with the material world…
— Jaggi Vasudev
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You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't…
— Joseph Campbell
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