“The naked man had lost hope now; he would never be able to return to the earth's surface;he would never leave the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The art of writing tales consists in an ability to draw the rest of life from the little one has understood of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A person's life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“What is more natural than that a solidity, a complicity, a bond should be established between Reader and Reader, thanks to the… — 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
Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of… — 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
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
“If I had to choose an auspicious sign for the approach of the new millennium, I would choose this: the sudden nimble… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living… — 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
The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“For “Copito de Nieve”, [...] the contact with the tire seems to be something affective, possessive, and somehow symbolic. From it he… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I speak and speak,” Marco says, “but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. The description of the world to… — 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
“If all material were transparent—the ground that supports us, the envelope that sheathes our body—everything would be seen not as a fluttering… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors,… — 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
“You only have to start saying of something : 'Ah, how beautiful ! We must photograph it !' and you are already… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life. — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“... KUBLAI: We have proved that if we were here, we would not be. POLO: And here, in fact, we are.” — 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 on a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
