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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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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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City Life, Cities
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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
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Italo Calvino
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Im a hopeless romantic. Its disgusting. It really is. Ive seen While You Were Sleeping, like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing. – Jennifer Love Hewitt

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I know its hard to blame the time, but theres a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that Superman Returns was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I dont think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer. – Bryan Singer

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A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. – Arthur Symons

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I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler – I was the only one that lived to tell the story – so I called myself the romantic lead. – Sally Kellerman

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