"Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the……" — Italo Calvino
"Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say."
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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 Blueprint Quotes
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Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and…
— Candace Cameron
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The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.
— Donald Sadoway
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It all comes down to this: if your subconscious "financial blueprint" is not "set" for success, nothing you learn, nothing…
— T. Harv Eker
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Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer,…
— Morris Mandel
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What is striking is these things [patterns in nature, e.g. fish stripes] do look like something that has been crafted.…
— Unknown Author
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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your…
— Og Mandino
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Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for courageous action.
— Adam West
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Given the complexity of interpersonal relationships and institutions and the complexity of co-ordination of the actions of many people, it…
— Robert Nozick
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It started off really…claustrophobic. I feel like I was really really protected. Really guarded with myself. I feel like they…
— Rihanna
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On Capitol Hill, the Republican-controlled House voted mostly along party lines tonight to pass President Bush's federal budget blueprint. This…
— Dan Rather
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If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown…
— Ruth Gordon
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Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.
— Lesley Visser
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