"Memories images, once they are fixed in words,…" — Italo Calvino
"Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased."
—
Italo Calvino
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
178 Quotes by Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino has 178 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
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.
-
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
-
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…
See all 178 quotes by Italo Calvino »
More Erased Quotes
This quote is filed under Erased Quotes,
one of 160 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.
— Jim Carrey
-
The past cannot be changed or forgotten, edited or erased. It can only be accepted.
— Wiz Khalifa
-
All bad memories erased! Now you can make new ones-good memories.
— Jung Woo
-
The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable,…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
-
It was as if nothing quite erased the initial shock of being kissed by someone who was not hers, a…
— Suki Kim
-
A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased
— Hans Frank
-
Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally,…
— Victor LaValle
-
My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange…
— Unknown Author
-
The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased…
— Raul Castro
-
The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's…
— James Earl Jones
-
The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.
— Teju Cole
-
If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared... then one can certainly wager that…
— Michel Foucault
See all 160 Erased Quotes »