"The writer is someone who tears himself to……" — Italo Calvino
"The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor."
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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 Liberate Quotes
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always…
— Hannah Arendt
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Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
— Brigitte Bardot
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No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing…
— Russell Brand
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PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way,…
— David Byrne
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I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
— Fidel Castro
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Buddhism regards all living creatures as being endowed with the Buddha nature and the potential to become Buddhas. That's why…
— Hsuan Hua
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Administrators need to shift from being controllers to enablers, so as to liberate the energies and talents of the teachers.
— Steve Denning
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Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity.…
— Gad Saad
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When I liberate others, I liberate myself.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
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Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.
— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
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Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the…
— Alexander the Great
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The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love,…
— Bell Hooks
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