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Anti-imperialism1 quote
Insurrection-by means of guerrilla bands-is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. — Giuseppe Mazzini · 1833Art1 quote
Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive. — Leon Battista Alberti · 1435Books1 quote
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. — Italo Calvino · 1981Cities1 quote
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears. — Italo Calvino · 1972Colonization of the Americas1 quote
I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion are very different from ours, who live in sierras and mountains, without fixed settlements, and where by divine will I have placed under the sovereignty of the King and Queen our Lords, an Other World, whereby Spain, which was reckoned poor, is become the richest of countries. — Christopher Columbus · 1500Curvature of the earth1 quote
I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south. — Christopher Columbus · 1498Discovery of America1 quote
At two hours after midnight appeared the land, at a distance of two leagues. They handed all sails and set the treo, which is the mainsail without bonnets, and lay-to waiting for daylight Friday, when they arrived at an island of the Bahamas that was called in the Indians' tongue Guanahaní. — Christopher Columbus · 1492Flowers1 quote
Bring me the sunflower, crazed with the love of light. — Eugenio Montale · 1925Painting1 quote
Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive. — Leon Battista Alberti · 1435Political theory1 quote
Insurrection-by means of guerrilla bands-is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. — Giuseppe Mazzini · 1833Power of art1 quote
Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive. — Leon Battista Alberti · 1435Power of literature1 quote
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. — Italo Calvino · 1981Rebellion1 quote
Insurrection-by means of guerrilla bands-is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. — Giuseppe Mazzini · 1833Sunflowers1 quote
Bring me the sunflower, crazed with the love of light. — Eugenio Montale · 1925The earth1 quote
I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south. — Christopher Columbus · 1498