Memory Quotes by Italo Calvino

9 Memory quotes by Italo Calvino

Calvino’s inventive storytelling shines through in these nine concise reflections on memory, each one a tiny, imaginative vignette that invites wonder.

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“Memory really matters...only if it enables us to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become.”

Italo Calvino

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“No, memory is true as long as you do not set it, as long as it is not enclosed in a form.”

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Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.

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“Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.”

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“The city is redundant: it repeats itself so that something will stick in the mind. […] Memory is redundant: it repeats signs…

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Memory really matters...only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us…

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Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once,…

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“Memory, or rather experience -- which is the memory of the event plus the wound it has inflicted on you, plus the…

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“I, too, feel the need to reread the books I have already read," a third reader says, "but at every rereading I…

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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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