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Quote by Italo Calvino
Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, ar

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. – Italo Calvino

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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following ones nose, taking shortcuts. – Italo Calvino

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Romantic
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Italo Calvino
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I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume. – Italo Calvino

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Modern, Modernism
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Italo Calvino
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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. – Italo Calvino

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Travel
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A mans memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become. – Fawn M. Brodie

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Legacy

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. – Thomas Carlyle

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Legacy

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. – Elias Canetti

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Legacy

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another. – Augusto Roa Bastos

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Legacy

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If you have to fight a crowd of boys, its best to go for the biggest one. That way you wont have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect. – Suzanne Vega

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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. – Theodor Adorno

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History is a bath of blood. – William James, Memories and Studies

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