"The ideal place for me is the one……" — Italo Calvino

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is… - Italo Calvino

"The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner."

— Italo Calvino

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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…

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More Exile Quotes

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In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters. — Diane Ackerman
We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature;… — Diane Ackerman
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is… — James A. Baldwin
I know how men in exile feed on dreams. — Aeschylus
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one… — Joseph Brodsky
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile,… — Willa Cather
I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am… — Isabel Allende
It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not… — Stephen Vincent Benet
To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to… — Albert Camus
The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is… — Primo Levi

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