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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Books - Classics
Italo Calvino

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
Love
Italo Calvino

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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
Anecdotes
Italo Calvino

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Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
Fiction
Italo Calvino

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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
Humankind
Italo Calvino

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The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
Exile
Italo Calvino

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun