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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration i

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following ones nose, taking shortcuts. – 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

Category:
Legacy
Author
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
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Italo Calvino
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Theres something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches. – Ben Affleck

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Romantic

Somebody called me a bruised romantic once, and I like that. – Susannah McCorkle

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Romantic

In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like Gone With the Wind. And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but theres something so absolutely romantic about it. – Freida Pinto

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My husband does so many romantic things for me, its absurd. – Jennifer Beals

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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death. – Charles de Montesquieu

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The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war. – Simon Newcomb

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There are days when you need someone who just wants to be your sunshine and not the air you breathe. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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