"Myth is the hidden part of every story,……" — Italo Calvino
"Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words."
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Italo Calvino
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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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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in…
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Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were…
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I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.
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My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them:…
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They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth…
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Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.
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Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X
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Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political…
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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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Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom,…
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