"You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood……" — Italo Calvino
"You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before"
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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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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their…
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten,…
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a…
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Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.
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An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to…
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With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.
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Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
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Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.
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Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
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Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope…
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