"There is no language without deceit." — Italo Calvino

"There is no language without deceit."

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

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that… — Hannah Arendt
Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if… — Pietro Aretino
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect… — Jane Austen
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. — Francis Bacon
Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of… — Stanley Baldwin
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. — Henry Adams
Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you… — Glenn Beck
Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. — Theodor Adorno
I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit. — Lucien Bouchard
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in… — Joseph Butler
I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life. — Taylor Caldwell
Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion. — Kim Cattrall

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