"One writes fables in periods of oppression." — Italo Calvino
"One writes fables in periods of oppression."
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Italo Calvino
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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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Natural history is not about producing fables.
— David Attenborough
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal…
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a…
— Unknown Author
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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the…
— Francis Bacon
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What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander…
— George Perkins Marsh
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The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost…
— James Madison
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall…
— Francis Bacon
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