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Quotes About Clarity

For the greatest thing in the smallest compass is a sound mind in a human body.
~ Isocrates
????? ???? ???? Ne possédant rien comme mon cœur est léger comme l'air est frais
~ Unknown
Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
~ Unknown
He that jokes confesses.
~ Italian proverb
Illness tells us what we are.
~ Unknown
If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.
~ Italo Calvino
You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before
~ Italo Calvino
Suppose we received from another planet a message made up of pure facts, facts of such clarity as to be merely obvious: we wouldn't pay attention, we would hardly even notice; only a message containing something unexpressed, something doubtful and partially indecipherable, would break through the threshold of our consciousness and demand to be received and interpreted.
~ Italo Calvino
Es preciso que entre las cosas pensadas y las cosas no haya más diferencias. Entonces seremos felices.
~ Italo Calvino
Leave me like this. I have come full circle and I understand. The world must be read backward. All is clear.
~ Italo Calvino
Cercare e saper riconoscere chi e cosa, in mezzo all'inferno, non è inferno, e farlo durare, e dargli spazio.
~ Italo Calvino
The world is so complicated, tangled, and overloaded that to see into it with any clarity you must prune and prune. In
~ Italo Calvino
In seguito a una serie di disavventure intellettuali che non meritano d'essere ricordate, il signor Palomar ha deciso che la sua principale attività sarà guardare le cose dal di fuori.
~ Italo Calvino
Gerçek ?u ki gündüzün ?????nda, bu yay?lm??, soluk, hemen hemen gölgesiz ayd?nl?kta geceninkinden de daha koyu bir karanl?k buluyorum.
~ Italo Calvino
As soon as I set foot there, everything I had imagined was forgotten; Pyrrha had become what is Pyrrha; and I thought I had always known
~ Italo Calvino
anyone who wants to see the earth properly must keep himself at a necessary distance from it
~ Italo Calvino
A me – dice – piacciono i libri in cui tutti i misteri e le angosce passano attraverso una mente esatta e fredda e senza ombre come quella d'un giocatore di scacchi.
~ Italo Calvino
There is someone looking through the befogged glass, he opens the glass door of the bar, everything is misty, inside, too, as if seen by nearsighted eyes, or eyes irritated by coal dust.
~ Italo Calvino
prendete la vita con leggerezza, che leggerezza non è superficialità, ma planare sulle cose dall'alto, non avere macigni sul cuore
~ Italo Calvino
I ja tak?e chc? tylko jednego: by? kim?, kto wie, czego chce!
~ Italo Calvino
One sees one's past more and more clearly as time goes by.
~ Italo Calvino
Non era molto, ma a me che non cercavo altro che immagini da tenere negli occhi, forse bastava.
~ Italo Calvino
This is the aim of my explorations: examining the traces of happiness still to be glimpsed, I gauge its short supply. If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.
~ Italo Calvino
One can gain more truth from the exception than from the rule
~ Italo Calvino