“The moment that counts most for me is the one that precedes reading. At times a title is enough to kindle in… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Because in this way all I did was to accumulate past after past behind me, multiplying the pasts, and if one life… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Having exhausted every possibility at the moment when he was coming full circle, Antonino realised that photographing photographs was the only course… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“This was mere unfounded prejudice--that seems obvious to me--because neither before nor after existed, nor any place to immigrate from, but there… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Journeys to relive your past?' was the Khan's question at this point, a question which could also have been formulated: 'Journeys to… — 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
“A description of Zaira as it is today should contain all Zaira’s past. The city, however, does not tell its past, but… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The moment that counts most for me is the moment that precedes reading. At times a title is enough to kindle in… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“KUBLAI: I do not know when you have had time to visit all the countries you describe to me. It seems to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“When a man rides a long time through wild regions he feels the desire for a city. Finally he comes to Isidora,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Memory really matters...only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us… — 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
