“And yet, in Raissa, at every moment there is a child in a window who laughs seeing a dog that has jumped… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“This was mere unfounded prejudice--that seems obvious to me--because neither before nor after existed, nor any place to immigrate from, but there… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“You fight with dreams as with formless and meaningless life, seeking a pattern, a route that must surely be there, as when… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“My faith in the future of literature rests on the knowledge that there are things that only literature, with its particular capacities,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Long novels written today are perhaps a contradiction: the dimension of time has been shattered, we cannot love or think except in… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Clarice, the glorious city, has a tormented history. Several times it decayed, then burgeoned again, always keeping the first Clarice as an… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“In fact the problem Leopardi is facing is speculative and metaphysical, a problem in the history of philosophy from Parmenides to Descartes… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“When I got here my first thought was: Maybe I achieved such an effort with my thoughts that time has made a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“There is the moment when the silence of the countryside gathers in the ear and breaks into a myriad of sounds:a croaking… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
…we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Hence that state of mind at once gloomy and euphoric which one associates with carrying out the rubbish; and the way we… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Marco enters a city; he sees someone in a square living a life or an instant that could be his; he could… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“My empire has grown too far toward the outside. It is time,’ the Khan thought, ‘for it to grow within itself.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“It could be an important feature to be added to your portrait: your mind has interior walls that allow you to partition… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“That mesh of leaves and twigs of fork and froth, minute and endless, with the sky glimpsed only in sudden specks and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“(one would say yes, if not every day, at least fairly regularly), whether only for yourself or also for others (often only for yourself,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The Great Khan tried to concentrate on the game: but now it was the game’s reason that eluded him. The end of every game… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Or else you can say, like the camel driver who took me there: "I arrived here in my first youth, one morning, many people… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The naked man had lost hope now; he would never be able to return to the earth's surface;he would never leave the bottom of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The art of writing tales consists in an ability to draw the rest of life from the little one has understood of it; but… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I ask you to come down to earth," said the Baron in a calm, rather faint voice, "and to take up the duties of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“... KUBLAI: We have proved that if we were here, we would not be. POLO: And here, in fact, we are.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“And yet, in Raissa, at every moment there is a child in a window who laughs seeing a dog that has jumped on a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Ludmilla, now you are being read. Your body is being subjected to a systematic reading, through channels of tactile information, visual, olfactory, and not… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Once the process of falsification is set in motion, it won't stop. We're in a country where everything that can be falsified has been… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Your case gives me new hope," I said to him. "With me, more and more often I happen to pick up a novel that… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
