“..they live for each other; their eyes are interlocked but there is not love between them.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“It was the love which the hunter has for living things, and which he can only express by aiming his gun at… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“If the spark doesn't come, that's a pity; but we do not read the classics out of duty or respect, but only… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“... we cannot love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
…we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
So began their love, the boy happy and amazed, she happy and not surprised at all (nothing happens by chance to girls).… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“And in this self-expression I put all the thoughts I had about her, I released the anger she made me feel, my… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I had fallen in love. What I mean is: I had begun to recognize, to isolate the signs of one of those… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“As long as I know there exists in the world someone who does tricks only for the love of the trick, as… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I was living and dying in all the fibers of what is chewed and digested and in all the fibers that absorb… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Now you can understand me: if I love order, it's not —as with so many others—the mark of a character subjected to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Why d’you make me suffer?" “Because I love you.” Now it was his turn to get angry. “No, no, you don’t love… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“You only have to start saying of something : 'Ah, how beautiful ! We must photograph it !' and you are already… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“(one would say yes, if not every day, at least fairly regularly), whether only for yourself or also for others (often only for yourself,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
“The Great Khan tried to concentrate on the game: but now it was the game’s reason that eluded him. The end of every game… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
“Or else you can say, like the camel driver who took me there: "I arrived here in my first youth, one morning, many people… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
“The naked man had lost hope now; he would never be able to return to the earth's surface;he would never leave the bottom of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
“The art of writing tales consists in an ability to draw the rest of life from the little one has understood of it; but… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
“I ask you to come down to earth," said the Baron in a calm, rather faint voice, "and to take up the duties of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
“... KUBLAI: We have proved that if we were here, we would not be. POLO: And here, in fact, we are.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share
“And yet, in Raissa, at every moment there is a child in a window who laughs seeing a dog that has jumped on a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
“Ludmilla, now you are being read. Your body is being subjected to a systematic reading, through channels of tactile information, visual, olfactory, and not… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
“Once the process of falsification is set in motion, it won't stop. We're in a country where everything that can be falsified has been… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
“Your case gives me new hope," I said to him. "With me, more and more often I happen to pick up a novel that… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly. — Italo Calvino Copy Share
“Perhaps it is this story that is a bridge over the void, and as it advances it flings forward news and sensations and emotions… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that perhaps this… — Italo Calvino Copy Share
