I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Every time I must find something to do that will look like something a little beyond my capabilities. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“My faith in the future of literature rests on the knowledge that there are things that only literature, with its particular capacities,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“...And meanwhile the Galaxy ran through space and left behind those signs old and new and I still hadn't found mine.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“My empire has grown too far toward the outside. It is time,’ the Khan thought, ‘for it to grow within itself.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time. — 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
Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its… — 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
The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“In fact the problem Leopardi is facing is speculative and metaphysical, a problem in the history of philosophy from Parmenides to Descartes… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“When I got here my first thought was: Maybe I achieved such an effort with my thoughts that time has made a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“It could be an important feature to be added to your portrait: your mind has interior walls that allow you to partition… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Clarice, the glorious city, has a tormented history. Several times it decayed, then burgeoned again, always keeping the first Clarice as an… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“...an archer, the moment he thinks he's experienced, is lost; every lion we encounter in our brief life is different from every… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“There is the moment when the silence of the countryside gathers in the ear and breaks into a myriad of sounds:a croaking… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Marco enters a city; he sees someone in a square living a life or an instant that could be his; he could… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“You fight with dreams as with formless and meaningless life, seeking a pattern, a route that must surely be there, as when… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Long novels written today are perhaps a contradiction: the dimension of time has been shattered, we cannot love or think except in… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“It was on the fifteenth of June, 1767, that Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, my brother, sat among us for the last time.… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“That mesh of leaves and twigs of fork and froth, minute and endless, with the sky glimpsed only in sudden specks and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Valdrada’s inhabitants know that each of their actions is, at once, that action and its mirror-image, which possesses the special dignity of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I, too, feel the need to reread the books I have already read," a third reader says, "but at every rereading I… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The clock is Shandy’s first symbol: under its influence, he is conceived and his misfortunes begin, which are the same thing according… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Hence that state of mind at once gloomy and euphoric which one associates with carrying out the rubbish; and the way we… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“You fasten your seatbelt. The plane is landing. To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“In the lives of emperors there is a moment which follows pride in the boundless extension of the territories we have conquered,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Sections in the bookstore - Books You Haven't Read - Books You Needn't Read - Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“And yet, in Raissa, at every moment there is a child in a window who laughs seeing a dog that has jumped… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by… — 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
