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You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.


Italo Svevo

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I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.
NATHANIEL RICH I still get scared at night. Every tiny creak, every little noise, I open my eyes real wide and list...
ELLEN DEGENERES Its marvelous what you can see when you open your eyes.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Open your eyes wide and see yourself breaking new territories... Believe what you see; arise and shi...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can'...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Open your eyes that you might see that all things are possible through you (with God's help)
ROBERT A. SCHULLER Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
SYDNEY SMITH Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
HANNAH MORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
HANNAH MORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
HENRY FORD Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
HENRY FORD Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open
KATHERINE PATERSON You have to behave prudently as an investor. If you invest in company stock, do it with your eyes wi...
ED FERRIGNO Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
HANNAH MOORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
HANNAH MORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
HENRY FORD To dream, close your eyes and keep your mind wide open.
SIMEON Close your Eyes, and Open your Mind. Now you can See, and Before you were Blind.
DANIEL RIEGER ANDERSSON if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see i...
NORTON JUSTER Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
SHORT QUOTES Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When you dream alone, with your eyes shut, asleep, that dream is an illusion. But when we dream toge...
SOURCE UNKNOWN The key to a healthy marriage is to keep your eyes wide open before you wed and half-closed thereaft...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
ARISTOPHANES Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN As a leader, you will see things you may never like to see; yours is to correct those things so that...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Open your eyes, mind and heart - and then (only then) you will see
RASHEED OGUNLARU Eyes are the doorway to your soul ,when you clearly avert the intuitions of your mind .
MADHUSHREE DAS Dreaming is what you do when your eyes are closed...living is what you do with that dream once you o...
NATHAN PARKS A lot of companies take the attitude that this could never happen to us. That's definitely being nai...
LEE BRODY You can't be too wise
So open your eyes
Stay young at heart.
BILLY SQUIER Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.
ANTHONY DOERR You know what? Yesterday will never come back. Close your eyes and see something! You shall neither ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
ELLEN DEGENERES Your fear of change is too clearly visible in your eyes
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.
MARY HIGGINS CLARK Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU Close your eyes to see the light of your love. It is what is enlightening the whole world. You don�...
DEBASISH MRIDHA When you can see without your eyes, you will then see past the disguise.
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS Determined eyes see less sleep; a focused mind has less time for idleness. Hearts filled with tenaci...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you know someone is going to punch you, should you close your eyes and pretend it's not going to ...
JOY MANISCALCO Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
ELLEN DEGENERES Keep waving someone who has closed his eyes only when you understand the fact that you are only exha...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Kiss a frog with your eyes wide open. If he turns into a prince you won't miss the transformation, b...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it.
MEG CABOT "When you learn to see reflections, you indulge your eyes" - Cabe Jefferies
CABE JEFFERIES How can you see something that isn't there?' yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. 'Sometim...
NORTON JUSTER Sometimes, one needs another pair of eyes to see things clearly.
AGUIDON We're watching this with eyes wide open.
EDWARD WINTERHALDER Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
BOB MARLEY That's the game now. You can do those things because it's wide open.
DALE HUNTER When you look into your soulmates eyes, you see the world; into your soulmates heart, you see the sk...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO When you have an open mind and you're flexible....not married to your beliefs, you can see clearly b...
DANA GORE When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes.
DALE RENTON Not your eyes but the capacity of your mind determines how well you see the things happening around ...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the t...
JOHNNY DEPP Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
VICTORIA ABRIL In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.
CARL SANDBURG In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.
CARL SANDBERG In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
CARL SANDBURG An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
UNKNOWN Those whose eyes are open cannot see for they are blinded by the lust of all that is around them, an...
JUDY AZAR LEBLANC Always face what you fear. Have just enough money, never too much, and some string. Even if it’s n...
TERRY PRATCHETT Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I i...
ITALO SVEVO God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
ITALO SVEVO There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember
ITALO SVEVO You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the...
PIETRO ARETINO You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the...
JAVAN You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the...
TABITHA SUZUMA My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.
RICHARD JOHN NEUHAUS When you're wide open, the world is a good place.
SHARON SALZBERG Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
DAVID HOCKNEY I know you exist not just because your eyes fly
and give light to things like an open window
PABLO NERUDA Without eliminating the fog in your mind, you won’t be able to see clearly! And how can you elimin...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN One Of The Best Attributes Of Successful People Is The Power Of Observation. Keep Your Eyes & Ears, ...
GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by re...
THOMAS MERTON unfamiliar things least produces familiarity. Familiarity only gets closer to you when you open your...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH She can't see the way your eyes will light up when you smile...
TAYLOR SWIFT Seize every opportunity you have to learn. Keep your eyes and ears wide open and seize life. Don’t...
RICHIE SAMBORA Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide...
MARGARET ATWOOD ...now open your mind by closing your eyes
see the unseen world within you which lies

MUNIA KHAN Happiness lies even in tiny little butterflies. You just have to open up your eyes and see where bea...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Happiness lies even in ltiny ittle butterflies. You just have to open up your eyes and see where bea...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Searching means having a goal, but finding means being free, being open, having no goal ... because ...
HERMANN HESSE An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goals you are trying to reach.
SOURCE UNKNOWN The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
DEEPAK CHOPRA The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers
DEEPAK CHOPRA If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only ...
WALTER ISAACSON The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compass...
ORHAN PAMUK Life shows you a lot. If you open your eyes and take a look!
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER Your world can change in an instant when you see someone through another's eyes.
ALISON G. BAILEY The most important things are scariest when they live in your head. When you open your mouth and spe...
ANDREW KASZOWSKI Dreams can only be seen with open eyes, what you see while you asleep are nightmares.
AMIT KALANTRI Eyes open, Ileana,” he growled. “I want you to see who’s in you. Who gives you what you need.
SETTA JAY Open your eyes, Train your ears, Use your head; If a mind you have, use it while you can.
OLASOT The storm is out there and every one of us must eventually face the storm. When the storm comes, pra...
BRYANT MCGILL

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Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I i...
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ITALO SVEVO An exotic birthplace on its own is not informative of anything.
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ITALO CALVINO Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because...
ITALO CALVINO I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an ext...
ITALO CALVINO The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted ...
ITALO CALVINO Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has,...
ITALO CALVINO Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and...
ITALO CALVINO The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
ITALO CALVINO The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to...
ITALO CALVINO The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretch...
ITALO CALVINO When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sig...
ITALO CALVINO A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
ITALO CALVINO A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but...
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ITALO CALVINO What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is...
ITALO CALVINO Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.
ITALO CALVINO I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hend...
ITALO CALVINO The city of Leonia refashions itself every day: every morning the people wake between fresh sheets, ...
ITALO CALVINO Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness
ITALO CALVINO Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because...
ITALO CALVINO Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places e...
ITALO CALVINO The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, ...
ITALO CALVINO Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.
ITALO CALVINO In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
ITALO CALVINO The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, ...
ITALO CALVINO One writes fables in periods of oppression.
ITALO CALVINO A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of b...
ITALO CALVINO Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.
ITALO CALVINO Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.
ITALO CALVINO It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear
ITALO CALVINO Viaggi per rivivere il tuo passato? — era a questo punto la domanda del Kan, che poteva anche esse...
ITALO CALVINO Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered t...
ITALO CALVINO In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Follo...
ITALO CALVINO Sections in the bookstore

- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- B...
ITALO CALVINO To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept ...
ITALO CALVINO Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I...
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ITALO CALVINO Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
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ITALO CALVINO Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write l...
ITALO CALVINO The only contact we could have with the void was through this little the void had produced as quinte...
ITALO CALVINO Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpec...
ITALO CALVINO If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a...
ITALO CALVINO What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the r...
ITALO CALVINO You are at the wheel of your car, waiting at a traffic light, you take the book out of the bag, rip ...
ITALO CALVINO Ya en el escaparate de la librería localizaste la portada con el título que buscabas. Siguiendo es...
ITALO CALVINO Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could end...
ITALO CALVINO Don't you ever get tired of reading?" she asked. "You could hardly be called good company! Don't you...
ITALO CALVINO In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Follo...
ITALO CALVINO The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, ...
ITALO CALVINO A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompa...
ITALO CALVINO I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois.
ITALO CALVINO The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author,...
ITALO CALVINO The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand
ITALO CALVINO Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.
ITALO CALVINO ...the world was trying to change its old face and show its underbelly of earth and roots.
ITALO CALVINO Amusement has always been the great moving force behind culture.
ITALO CALVINO E combattendo, troveranno che le parole non hanno più significato.
ITALO CALVINO The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never h...
ITALO CALVINO It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the nig...
ITALO CALVINO If all material were transparent—the ground that supports us, the envelope that sheathes our body�...
ITALO CALVINO Tu casa, al ser el lugar donde lees, puede decirnos cuál es el lugar que los libros tienen en tu vi...
ITALO CALVINO Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immedia...
ITALO CALVINO My mother delayed my enrollment in the Fascist scouts, the Balilla, as long as possible, fi...
ITALO CALVINO A los duelos suceden tarde o temprano acontecimientos alegres, es ley de vida.
ITALO CALVINO No puede haber amor si no se es uno mismo con todas sus fuerzas.
ITALO CALVINO - Quando sarai stanco di star lì cambierai idea! - gli gridò.
- Non cambierò mai idea, - fec...
ITALO CALVINO hasta que murió, sin haber comprendido, tras una vida entera dedicada a la fe, en qué creía, pero...
ITALO CALVINO Yo tenía la impresión de que mi hermano no sólo había enloquecido del todo, sino que se estaba v...
ITALO CALVINO کوزیمو طرحی نوشته و منتشر کرده بود که این نام را داشت: "پ...
ITALO CALVINO Nuestro padre se asomó al antepecho.
- ¡Cuando te canses de estar ahí ya cambiarás de idea!...
ITALO CALVINO A gentleman, my Lord Father, is such whether he is on earth or on the treetops
ITALO CALVINO As a matter of fact, we had already been warned against sliding down the marble banisters, not out o...
ITALO CALVINO Cosimo stretched out his arms. 'I came up here before you, my lords, and here I will stay afterwards...
ITALO CALVINO It was on the fifteenth of June, 1767, that Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, my brother, sat among us for ...
ITALO CALVINO That mesh of leaves and twigs of fork and froth, minute and endless, with the sky glimpsed only in s...
ITALO CALVINO Cosimo did not yet know love, and what is any experience without that? What point is there in riskin...
ITALO CALVINO Now that he is no longer here I should be interested in so many things: philosophy, politics, histor...
ITALO CALVINO We live in a country where causes are always seen but never effects.
ITALO CALVINO In the Ondariva gardens the branches spread out like the tentacles of extraordinary animals, and the...
ITALO CALVINO Le imprese più ardite vanno vissute con l'animo più semplice. (Cosimo Piovasco Barone di Rondò)
ITALO CALVINO Her breast was young, the nipples rosy. Cosimo just grazed it with his lips, before Viola slid away ...
ITALO CALVINO ...his life was dominating by conflicting ideas, as often happens in periods of transition. The turb...
ITALO CALVINO Il bassotto alzò il muso verso di lui, con lo sguardo dei cani quando non capiscono e non sanno che...
ITALO CALVINO We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
ITALO CALVINO The more time passed, the less happened. The more they felt something must happen, the more the bail...
ITALO CALVINO And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able t...
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ITALO CALVINO There is the moment when the silence of the countryside gathers in the ear and breaks into a myriad ...
ITALO CALVINO That wish to enter into an elusive element which had urged Cosimo into the trees, was still working ...
ITALO CALVINO Why d’you make me suffer?"
“Because I love you.”
Now it was his turn to get angry. �...
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ITALO CALVINO So began their love, the boy happy and amazed, she happy and not surprised at all (nothing happens b...
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ITALO CALVINO Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exerc...
ITALO CALVINO again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering.
ITALO CALVINO A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, "H...
ITALO CALVINO Amedeo loved thick tomes, and in tackling them he felt the physical pleasure of undertaking a great ...
ITALO CALVINO Resta-nos esclarecer a parte que nesse golfo fantástico cabe ao imaginário indireto, ou seja, o co...
ITALO CALVINO The problem is that remittances [from the U.S.] have made Salvadorans comfortable and they don't wan...
ITALO ESCRICH The problem is that remittances [from the United States] have made Salvadorans comfortable, and they...
ITALO ESCRICH La mia ricerca dell’esattezza si biforca in due direzioni. Da una parte la riduzione degli avvenim...
ITALO CALVINO Penso che siamo sempre alla caccia di qualcosa di nascosto o di solo potenziale o ipotetico, di cui ...
ITALO CALVINO Journeys to relive your past?' was the Khan's question at this point, a question which could also ha...
ITALO CALVINO After a seven days' march through woodland, the traveler directed toward Baucis cannot see the city ...
ITALO CALVINO what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a pa...
ITALO CALVINO God knows wherebthey are now, the people I receive instructions, or rather-let's come right out and ...
ITALO CALVINO ...eyes that, like those of children, look at an eternal present without forgiveness.
ITALO CALVINO Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story...
ITALO CALVINO In Chloe, a great city, the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter...
ITALO CALVINO There is still one of which you never speak.'

Marco Polo bowed his head.

'Veni...
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ITALO CALVINO I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to...
ITALO CALVINO If I were to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects," I said some...
ITALO CALVINO ...an archer, the moment he thinks he's experienced, is lost; every lion we encounter in our brief l...
ITALO CALVINO The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here...
ITALO CALVINO The naked man had lost hope now; he would never be able to return to the earth's surface;he would ne...
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