Space Quotes by Italo Calvino

11 Space quotes by Italo Calvino

Calvino’s lyrical imagination stretches toward the cosmos in eleven compact lines, each a tiny portal to wonder.

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“...And meanwhile the Galaxy ran through space and left behind those signs old and new and I still hadn't found mine.”

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“...Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give…

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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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“In fact the problem Leopardi is facing is speculative and metaphysical, a problem in the history of philosophy from Parmenides to Descartes…

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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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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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Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space…

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If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model:…

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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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The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the…

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“You fasten your seatbelt. The plane is landing. To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you…

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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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