Quote by Italo Calvino
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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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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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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I never got the opportunity to be romantic or feel romantic with anyone. – Gary Coleman

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People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that Im a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think its a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist. – Michael Haneke

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But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really havent read too many, and I cant say Im crazy about romantic vampires anyway – to me the vampire is simply an evil monster. – Brian Lumley

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I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. Im a bit of a romantic. – Eric Bana

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I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I dont have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty. – Jacqueline Bisset

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