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Italo Calvino

"Signs form a language, but not the one you think you know."

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"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."

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"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."

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"Science is a proven concept with standards. Wisdom is the knowledge of life that we learn by living it."

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"If we knew what is already there, there will be no need for research."

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"Why must ignorance be destroyed? Because it is the number one destroyer of the people of God."

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"Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands."

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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."

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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."

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"Journeys to relive your past?' was the Khan's question at this point, a question which could also have been formulated: 'Journeys to recover your future?'And Marco's answer was: 'Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveller recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and willnever have."

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"The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, 'I read, therefore it writes."

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"Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?"

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"A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people. If this is not the case, then humanity becomes - as it is already to a large extent - no more than a rabbit-warren. But this is no longer a 'free-range warren but a 'battery one, in the conditions of artificiality in which it lives, with artificial light and chemical feed."

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"Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they area dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books."

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"Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased."

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"Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space."

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"Today each of you is the object of the other's reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story."

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