"Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely…" — Italo Calvino
"Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young."
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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 Incomplete Quotes
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and…
— Russell Baker
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A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to…
— Stephen Levine
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In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise…
— Bruce Alberts
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Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a…
— Lloyd Mangrum
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Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
— Robert Browning
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Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity…
— Norman Cousins
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I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire…
— Martin Seligman
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The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws…
— Werner Heisenberg
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We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs…
— William James
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