"The city of cats and the city of……" — Italo Calvino

The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside… - Italo Calvino

"The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city."

— Italo Calvino

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178 Quotes by Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino has 178 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances,…
In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born.…
The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he…
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's…
It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually…
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as…
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than…

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know… — David Attenborough
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual… — David Attenborough
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how… — David Attenborough
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I… — David Attenborough
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in… — David Attenborough
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware… — David Attenborough

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