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Mean Quotes by Italo Calvino
- Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.
- Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
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