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From Quotes by Italo Calvino
- The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to…
- The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.
- The contradiction [trying to use Russian model to reshape Italy] grew to such an extent that I felt totally cut off from the communist world…
- Success consists in felicity of verbal expression, which every so often may result from a quick flash of inspiration but as a rule involves a…
- Though I leave the house as little as possible, I have the impression that someone is disturbing my papers. More than once I have discovered…
- Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then carry with you…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live…
- It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.
- Don't ask where the rest of this book is!" It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the shelves. "All books…
- I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.
- I suffer from everyday life.
- A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.
- Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.
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