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Quote by Italo Calvino
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. – Italo Calvino

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Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. – Italo Calvino

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Myths, Mythology
Author
Italo Calvino
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The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. – Italo Calvino

Category:
Books
Author
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. – Italo Calvino

Category:
Exile
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Italo Calvino
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Other Quotes from
City Life, Cities
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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast. – Italian Proverb

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City Life, Cities

In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future – Daniel J. Boorstin

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City Life, Cities

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse. – John Ciardi

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City Life, Cities

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. – C. Northcote Parkinson, 1958

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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. – Charles de Gaulle

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Love of country is like love of woman — he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good. – Felix Adler

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