"We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly."

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Italo Calvino

#Men Quotes #World Quotes #Instruments Quotes

“My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.”
“Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.”
“Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.”
“I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.”
“The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.”
“Kat!â€ Gabrielle hissed. â€œYouâ€™re going to get caught." The smile Kat flashed over her shoulder was almost wicked. â€œI know.”
“The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.”

Source : Paul Johnson (1980). “The Things that are Not Caesar's”
“God has a story to tell about you. A major part of it is you telling yours.”

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