Italo Calvino Quotes
The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
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The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.
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I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.
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Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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I'm the youngest of five girls, and I don't know about you, but it's really hard to be heard when you have five women. I've always been this loud and over the top as a person because I just want to be heard.
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
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I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.
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Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?
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You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
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I've never purposefully based a character on any one person I know, but I'm certain there are amalgamations that exist.
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This planet seems to be in such sorry shape. And I can't ever think about the rest of the universe without coming back home and thinking what the implications for life here would be if we were to really have some definitive proof of extraterrestrial life.
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Although the warrior's life is dedicated to helping others, he realizes that he will never be able to completely share his experience with others...Yet he is more and more in love with the world. That combination of love affair and loneliness is what enables the warrior to constantly reach out to help others. By renouncing his private world, the warrior discovers a greater universe and a fuller and fuller broken heart. This is not something to feel bad about; it is a cause for rejoicing.
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If only we could love ourselves enough to dare to approach God, what constructive dreams he would give us! What noble possibilities God wants to reveal to us - possibilities that would offer stimulation plus real security in service. But we feel too unworthy. So one layer of negative behavior is laid upon another until we emerge as rebellious sinners. But our rebellion is a reaction, not our nature. By nature we are fearful, not bad.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves.
