After Quote by Italo Calvino

“(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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“... KUBLAI: We have proved that if we were here, we would not be. POLO: And here, in fact, we are.”

— Italo Calvino

“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

“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

“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

“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