"At times the mirror increases a thing’s value,……" — Italo Calvino
"At times the mirror increases a thing’s value, at times denies it."
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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 Denies Quotes
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I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a…
— B R Ambedkar
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The Bible consistently denies free will.
— Gordon Clark
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being…
— Doris Lessing
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The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.
— Albert Camus
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He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and…
— Richard Dawkins
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The vehemence with which a person denies the existence of the serial bully is directly proportional to the congruence of…
— Tim Field
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"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh,"…
— Douglas Adams
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We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God;…
— William Temple
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