"Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness." — Italo Calvino
"Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness."
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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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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I…
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It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
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What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially…
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If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
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When I'm feeling sad, or lonely, and I don't know what I'm doing and I don't know where I'm going,…
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Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings…
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Sadness, seriousness are parts of a psychologically sick man - they need causes. So when you are feeling happy, don't…
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Guide to the world of the dead. When you are certain that the body has left you, feel sad for…
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Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that…
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Don't criticize something you know nothing about. It only brings people down and makes everyone miserable.
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