Truth Quotes by Italo Calvino

8 Truth quotes by Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino’s eight thoughts on truth feel like miniature fables, each line a crisp, imaginative twist on honesty. The collection offers a brief, literary glimpse into his playful yet profound perspective.

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Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

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“How is it possible to defeat not the authors but the functions of the author, the idea that behind each book there…

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Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.

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They knew each other. He knew her and so himself, for in truth he had never known himself. And she knew him…

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“One can gain more truth from the exception than from the rule”

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“We can prevent reading: but in the decree that forbids reading there will be still read something of the truth that we…

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“Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered; because the truth that can come from my…

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Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie.

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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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