We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Why come to Trude? I asked myself. And I already wanted to leave. You cand resume your flight whereever you like," they… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I speak and speak,” Marco says, “but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. The description of the world to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The contradiction [trying to use Russian model to reshape Italy] grew to such an extent that I felt totally cut off from… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If… — 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
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