“With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear.”— Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (1972), p. 44; tr. William Weaver (1974)Share
“Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.”— Italo CalvinoShare
“Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined.”— Italo CalvinoShare
“It is true that software cannot exercise its powers of lightness except through the weight of hardware.”— Italo CalvinoShare
“Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.”— François de La RochefoucauldShare
“Where we find a difficulty we may always expect that a discovery awaits us. Where there is cover we hope for game.”— C.S. LewisShare
“A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.”— Henry David ThoreauShare
“To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action when there is more reason to fear than to hope.”— Miguel de CervantesShare
“He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.”— John MiltonShare
“Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.”— Nelson MandelaShare
