Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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What does it matter to make the least mistakes for someone who has achieved the most?

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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I am so afraid that I don't even have the courage to flee.

Erskine Caldwell

Erskine Caldwell

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A good government is like good digestion; while it functions, we hardly perceive it.

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

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Every story is nothing more than an endless catastrophe from which we try to emerge as best as possible.

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

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Upon arriving in each new city, the traveler encounters a past of theirs that they didn't know they had: the strangeness of what you are not or no longer possess awaits you at every turn in unfamiliar and unowned places.

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Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

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Cities, like dreams, are built of desires and fears, even though the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules absurd, their perspectives deceptive, and everything conceals another thing.

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

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The ideal place for me is one where it's most natural to live as a foreigner.

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

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Every choice has its flip side, that is, a resignation, so there is no difference between the act of choosing and the act of resigning.

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

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Reading is finding something that is going to exist.

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

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Melancholy is the sadness that has acquired lightness.

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

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The art of writing stories lies in knowing how to draw from the little that has been understood about life, everything else.

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