"A classic is a book that has never……" — Italo Calvino

"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."

— Italo Calvino

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178 Quotes by Italo Calvino

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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances,…
In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born.…
The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he…
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's…
It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually…
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as…
The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same…
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than…

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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
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