"Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity……" — Italo Calvino
"Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world."
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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 Dissolving Quotes
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There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that…
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As the brain changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they…
— William James
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Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern-always a meaningful pattern-though never…
— Charles Scott Sherrington
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Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young…
— Russell Means
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The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift…
— Ruth Bernhard
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William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in…
— Adrian Desmond
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Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the…
— Rachel Kushner
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I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself,…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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The people who could most benefit from the self-reflective ego-dissolving qualities of cannabis are the ones that want it to…
— Joe Rogan
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Any attempt at liberation, no matter how great it might be, if it does not take into consideration the necessity…
— Samael Aun Weor
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The many faces of Collective Vision united by the mandalic eye-field suggest both expansion of consciousness and sharing of consciousness…
— Alex Grey
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I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems…
— John Keats
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