"An exotic birthplace on its own is not……" — Italo Calvino
"An exotic birthplace on its own is not informative of anything."
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178 Quotes by Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino has 178 quotes on this site.
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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,…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually…
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The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as…
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The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same…
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More Birthplace Quotes
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one of 45 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of…
— Mark Twain
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Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and…
— Bayard Rustin
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Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.
— Henry Anatole Grunwald
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Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of…
— Og Mandino
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The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit,…
— E. O. Wilson
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We are committed to the Common Civil Code, Article 370 and building of a magnificent temple at the birthplace of…
— Unknown Author
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At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.
— Jules Michelet
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If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.
— Martin Luther
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Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.... Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to…
— Brené Brown
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Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.
— George Eliot
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Awareness is the birthplace of possibility. Everything you want to do, everything you want to be, starts here.
— Deepak Chopra
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Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for.
— Brené Brown
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