Mean Quotes by Italo Calvino

8 Mean quotes by Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino turns the concept of meanness into a playground of ideas across eight concise, imaginative lines that feel both quirky and insightful.

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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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This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to…

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My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by…

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I had fallen in love. What I mean is: I had begun to recognize, to isolate the signs of one of those…

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You have with you the book you were reading in the cafe, which you are eager to continue, so that you can…

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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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Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.

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Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.

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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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We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly.

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