"The human race is a zone of living……" — Italo Calvino
"The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines."
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178 Quotes by Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino has 178 quotes on this site.
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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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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than…
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More Confines Quotes
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one of 107 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams,…
— John Berger
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Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.
— Jo Brand
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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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This current government in Iraq has never fulfilled the commitments it made to form a unity government with the Kurds,…
— Chuck Hagel
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I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles…
— Lenny Bruce
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Every spirit makes its house, but as after wards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Imagine a school-boy who has outgrown his clothes. Imagine the repairs made on the vestments where the enlarged frame had…
— John Joseph Griffin
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The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on…
— Michel Foucault
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The dominant feature of the later legislation has been this steady reduction of the status of the native, and, though…
— Paul Hasluck
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Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night,…
— William Shakespeare
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