"It is only after you have come to……" — Italo Calvino
"It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible."
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178 Quotes by Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino has 178 quotes on this site.
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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances,…
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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born.…
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The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
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The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he…
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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's…
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It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually…
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The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as…
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The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same…
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Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason,…
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have…
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Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles…
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Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.
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