Different Quotes by Italo Calvino

9 Different quotes by Italo Calvino

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Calvino’s nine lines dance between reality and fantasy, celebrating the strange turns that enrich narrative. His inventive voice invites readers to see difference as a playground for imagination.

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Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.

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Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

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If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model:…

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So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really, as they say, the enjoyment of new and different things, and…

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I could distinguish the shape of her bosom, her arms, her thighs, just as I remember them now, just as now, when…

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In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single,…

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Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into…

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For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it…

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Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into…

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“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…

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“The art of writing tales consists in an ability to draw the rest of life from the little one has understood of it; but…

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“I ask you to come down to earth," said the Baron in a calm, rather faint voice, "and to take up the duties of…

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The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient…

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“... KUBLAI: We have proved that if we were here, we would not be. POLO: And here, in fact, we are.”

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“And yet, in Raissa, at every moment there is a child in a window who laughs seeing a dog that has jumped on a…

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“Ludmilla, now you are being read. Your body is being subjected to a systematic reading, through channels of tactile information, visual, olfactory, and not…

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