Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino: Traveling, you realize...

Italo Calvino: Traveling, you realize...

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their...

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Italo Calvino: The unconscious is...

Italo Calvino: The unconscious is...

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a...

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Italo Calvino: The catalogue of...

Italo Calvino: The catalogue of...

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When...

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Italo Calvino: The struggle of...

Italo Calvino: The struggle of...

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the...

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Italo Calvino: A classic is...

Italo Calvino: A classic is...

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Source: Why...

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Italo Calvino: The satirist is...

Italo Calvino: The satirist is...

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is...

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Italo Calvino: It is not...

Italo Calvino: It is not...

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

Source: Marco Polo, in...

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Italo Calvino: I am prisoner...

Italo Calvino: I am prisoner...

I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their...

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Italo Calvino: Everything can change,...

Italo Calvino: Everything can change,...

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's...

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Italo Calvino: Biographical data, even...

Italo Calvino: Biographical data, even...

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare...

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Italo Calvino: The human race...

Italo Calvino: The human race...

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

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Italo Calvino: Myth is the...

Italo Calvino: Myth is the...

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet...

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Italo Calvino: What Romantic terminology...

Italo Calvino: What Romantic terminology...

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road...

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Italo Calvino: Novels as dull...

Italo Calvino: Novels as dull...

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

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Italo Calvino: When politicians and...

Italo Calvino: When politicians and...

When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign -- a bad sign...

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Italo Calvino: Traveling, you realize...

Italo Calvino: Traveling, you realize...

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their...

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Italo Calvino: The unconscious is...

Italo Calvino: The unconscious is...

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a...

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Italo Calvino: The catalogue of...

Italo Calvino: The catalogue of...

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When...

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Italo Calvino: The struggle of...

Italo Calvino: The struggle of...

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the...

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Italo Calvino: A classic is...

Italo Calvino: A classic is...

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Source: Why...

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