"The minute you start saying something, 'Ah, how……" — Italo Calvino
"The minute you start saying something, 'Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!' you are already close to view of the person who thinks that everything that is not photographed is lost, as if it had never existed, and that therefore, in order really to live, you must photograph as much as you can, and to photograph as much as you can you must either live in the most photographable way possible, or else consider photographable every moment of your life. The first course leads to stupidity; the second to madness."
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Italo Calvino
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178 Quotes by Italo Calvino
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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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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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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
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Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
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That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there…
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I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways.
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Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge…
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
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The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But…
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Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
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Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
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I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene…
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Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.
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