"The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred……" — Italo Calvino
"The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives the sense of the world after the end of the world, the sense that the world is the end of everything that there is in the world, that the only thing there is in the world is the end of the world."
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178 Quotes by Italo Calvino
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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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Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge…
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When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong ... Sin becomes fine. Start with homosexual behavior and just morph…
— Phil Robertson
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I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at…
— Albert Claude
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On whether Blurred Lines' video is sexist: I don't. I really appreciate the people who watch out for that stuff,…
— Emily Ratajkowski
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We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation…
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You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears.
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...chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature;…
— James Hansen
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People think pop is rock, and the lines are getting blurred. Now Rihanna's wearing f-ckin' leather jackets, and it's really…
— Taylor Momsen
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In the final analysis the hierarchic pattern is nothing like the straightforward witness for organic evolution that is commonly assumed.…
— Michael Denton
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The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and…
— Jean Genet
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The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy…
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