"Good literature can be created only with something……" — Italo Calvino
"Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature."
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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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The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.
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I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never…
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
— Saint Augustine
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
— Saint Augustine
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Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they…
— Teresa of Avila
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of…
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Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn't embarrassed by it.
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Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place…
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St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to…
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