"Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else."

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Source : "Invisible Cities". Book by Italo Calvino, 1972.

Italo Calvino

#Dream Quotes #Cities Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“Chess is not for timid souls.”
“The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.”

Source : James Bovard (2016). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.7, St. Martin's Griffin
“I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me.”
“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.”
“Food availability is not really the issue. The quality of the food is what we recognize is the problem.”
“To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight”
“Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.”

Source : Paul Simon (2012). “Lyrics 1964 - 2011”, p.325, Simon and Schuster
“Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.”

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