"The universe is the mirror in which we……" — Italo Calvino
"The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves"
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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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Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the…
— Sai Baba
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Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to…
— Tony Blair
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity
— Ambrose Bierce
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me…
— Thomas Paine
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The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow…
— Charles Stanley
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If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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These guidelines contemplate a policy that will grant special benefits to illegal immigrants based on their unlawful presence in the…
— Mike Lee
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I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different…
— Howard Zinn
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Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and…
— Abraham Lincoln
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There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with…
— Anthony de Mello
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People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money…
— Horace
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