Best Italo Calvino Sayings
- I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from… All
- The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is… Doe
- The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. Exile
- Falsehood is never in words; it is in things. Falsehood
- You have with you the book you were reading in the cafe, which you are eager to continue, so that you can then hand it… Alien
- The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death. All
- If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is… Both
- This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences… Accumulation
- If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had… Denied
- You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Begin
- My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly… All
- ...and every Wednesday the perfumed young lady slips me a hundred-crown note to leave her alone with the convict. And by Thursday the hundred crowns… Alone
- The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living that has a… Attempt
- To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place… Accept
- The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we… Accept
- Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you… Arriving
- ...the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take… All
- Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that perhaps this will… Even Now
- Memory really matters...only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us to act without… Act
- Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say. Blueprint
- The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives the sense of… Blurred
- The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what… Attraction
- I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains. Assertion
- Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness. Feeling Sad
- So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really, as they say, the enjoyment of new and different things, and not, instead, the… Begin
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