19 Quotations by Italo Calvino
- 1. A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
- 2. Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, ...
- 3. Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and ...
- 4. I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an ext ...
- 5. In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
- 6. It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
- 7. Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because ...
- 8. Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because ...
- 9. Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
- 10. The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to ...
- 11. The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
- 12. The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
- 13. The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
- 14. The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted ...
- 15. The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretch ...
- 16. The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, ...
- 17. Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places e ...
- 18. What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the r ...
- 19. When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sig ...
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