Moments Quotes by Italo Calvino

11 Moments quotes by Italo Calvino

Calvino loved to play with the edges of time, and these eleven snippets reveal his whimsical take on the brief flashes that color life.

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You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses…

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To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being…

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Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment…

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Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that…

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Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its…

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Having exhausted every possibility at the moment when he was coming full circle, Antonino realised that photographing photographs was the only course…

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Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm; or else someone's…

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The minute you start saying something, 'Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!' you are already close to view of the person…

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So began their love, the boy happy and amazed, she happy and not surprised at all (nothing happens by chance to girls).…

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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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...the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings…

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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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“Your case gives me new hope," I said to him. "With me, more and more often I happen to pick up a novel that…

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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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“Perhaps it is this story that is a bridge over the void, and as it advances it flings forward news and sensations and emotions…

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