Quote by Italo Calvino
The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, b

The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city. – Italo Calvino

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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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Legacy
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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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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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Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives. – Stephen Baker

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Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels and their bath towels look like a collection of knitting mistakes. – Eric Gurney

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Cats

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats. – Albert Schweitzer

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Cats

A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. – Indian Proverb

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