People Quotes by Italo Calvino

10 People quotes by Italo Calvino

Calvino’s playful imagination turns everyday encounters into ten fleeting vignettes. The prose hints at larger stories behind each person, inviting readers to see the ordinary as subtly extraordinary.

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A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love…

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I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

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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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I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to…

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When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly…

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Renouncing things is less difficult than people believe: it's all a matter of getting started. Once you've succeeded in dispensing with something…

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The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living…

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My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people,…

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You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less…

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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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