"Reading is a possession, a march toward a…" — Italo Calvino
"Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession."
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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 March Quotes
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one of 699 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
— Charles Baudelaire
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
— A. C. Benson
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I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare.
— Jacqueline Bisset
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I like college football, but I'm a huge college basketball fan. I could sit and watch every game of March…
— Lewis Black
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The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.
— H. P. Blavatsky
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It was a dreamlike time for me from December 1997 to March of '98. Before that, I was basically unknown.…
— Ben Affleck
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An army marches on its stomach.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Luck marches with those who give their very best.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none…
— James Buchan
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The march of the human mind is slow.
— Edmund Burke
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The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they…
— George W. Bush
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We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes…
— Alex Campbell
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