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Quote by Italo Calvino
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. – 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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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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Italo Calvino
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Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death hath no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever. – J. Swartz

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[W]omen and books should be looked at daily. – Dutch Proverb

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He retired to his bibliomaniacal bed… – Thomas Frognall Dibdin, “The Drawing Room,”Bibliomania; or, Book Madness: A Bibl

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A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. – Franz Kafka

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Books

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The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. – James K. Polk

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Statistics may be defined as “a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.” – W.A. Wallis

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Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority. – Bill Gates

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