Dream Quotes by Italo Calvino

11 Dream quotes by Italo Calvino

Calvino’s love of the fantastical shines in these brief musings, where every nocturnal image feels like a tiny, self‑contained story waiting to be opened.

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“In the morning you wake from one bad dream and another begins.”

Italo Calvino

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Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.

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“I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.”

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Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd,…

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“The dream of being invisible . . . When I find myself in an environment where I can enjoy the illusion of…

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“From mirror to mirror — this is what I happen to dream of — the totality of things, the whole, the entire…

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Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are…

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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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“With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that…

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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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“You fight with dreams as with formless and meaningless life, seeking a pattern, a route that must surely be there, as when…

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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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