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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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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

Category:
Myths, Mythology
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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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The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. – Italo Calvino

Category:
Exile
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Italo Calvino
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Romantic
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I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. Its just a genre thats very human. – Lena Dunham

Category:
Romantic

There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important. – John Boorman

Category:
Romantic

I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind. – Wentworth Miller

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Romantic

We believe that according the name investors to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic. – Warren Buffett

Category:
Romantic

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