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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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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

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The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. – Italo Calvino

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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast. – Italian Proverb

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble. – Caesar Augustus

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