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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

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Myths, Mythology
Author
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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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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The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost. – Leslie Caron

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Romantic

I dont get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe. – Morgan Freeman

Category:
Romantic

If youre a woman and a guys ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it. – Louis C. K.

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Romantic

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know. – Donna Tartt

Category:
Romantic

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