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Quote by 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

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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

Category:
Modern, Modernism
Author
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

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

Category:
Cats
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Italo Calvino
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Exile
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It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot. – Joseph Brodsky

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Exile

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. – Nadine Gordimer

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Exile

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile. – Pope Gregory VII

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Exile

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. – Henry James

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Exile

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