"The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining……" — Italo Calvino
"The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him."
—
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.
-
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…
-
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than…
See all 178 quotes by Italo Calvino »
More Attracted Quotes
This quote is filed under Attracted Quotes,
one of 686 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be…
— Hannah Arendt
-
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person…
— Abu Bakr
-
I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity.…
— Amy Adams
-
The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left…
— Mikhail Bakunin
-
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
— James A. Baldwin
-
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious…
— Honore de Balzac
-
I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.
— Eric Bana
-
I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid,…
— Eric Bana
-
As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends…
— Eric Bana
-
Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.
— Dave Barry
-
I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.
— Kate Beckinsale
-
I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
See all 686 Attracted Quotes »