Best Italo Calvino Quotations
- Why come to Trude? I asked myself. And I already wanted to leave. You cand resume your flight whereever you like," they say to me,… Absolutely
- The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies. Bodies
- For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave.… Already Spoken
- Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Book
- So began their love, the boy happy and amazed, she happy and not surprised at all (nothing happens by chance to girls). It was the… All
- In general confusion youth recognizes itself and rejoices. Confusion
- What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library? Great
- Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into dreams or the… Approach
- The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse… Attract
- ...Life is nothing but trading smells. Inspirational
- Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches. Achieved
- You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the… All
- I had fallen in love. What I mean is: I had begun to recognize, to isolate the signs of one of those from the others,… Answered
- What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure… Area
- every choice has its obverse, that is to say a renunciation, and so there is no difference between the act of choosing and the act… Act
- Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do. Days
- Whether there is such a thing as Reality, of which the various levels are only partial aspects, or whether there are only levels, is something… Aspect
- The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand Cities
- In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions,… Any
- Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is… Book
- Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful,… Absurd
- Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak… Afraid
- Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing… Bread
- How well I would write if I were not here! Inspirational
- Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you… Area
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