Day: February 12, 2024
All Time Famous Quotes of Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino was an Italian writer and journalist. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy, the Cosmicomics collection of short stories, and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter’s night a traveler. Italo Calvino Quotes 1. “Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is […]
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All Time Famous Quotes of Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was sometimes simply known as “the Certaldese”[nb 2] and one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century. […]
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All Time Famous Quotes of Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (Latin American Spanish: 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the […]
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All Time Famous Quotes of Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short-story writer based in Prague, who is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. Franz Kafka Quotes 1. “Paths are made by walking.” — Franz Kafka 2. “I am free and that is […]
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All Time Famous Quotes of Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also worked as an essayist, art critic and translator. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhyme and rhythm, containing an exoticism inherited from Romantics, and are based on observations of real life. Charles Baudelaire Quotes 1. “With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But […]
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All Time Famous Quotes of Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and physician who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Anton Chekhov Quotes 1. “Knowledge is of no value unless you […]
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All Time Famous Quotes of Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin was born into the Russian nobility in Moscow. Alexander Pushkin Quotes 1. “Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive […]
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