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Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives (Italo Calvino Quotes)
Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie (Italo Calvino Quotes)
In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman (Italo Calvino Quotes)
Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky (Italo Calvino Quotes)
Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top (Italo Calvino Quotes)
Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do (Italo Calvino Quotes)
Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist (Italo Calvino Quotes)
Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered (Italo Calvino Quotes)
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents (Italo Calvino Quotes)
What romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts (Italo Calvino Quotes)
Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me. Polo answers: Without stones there is no arch (Italo Calvino Quotes)
I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume (Italo Calvino Quotes)
Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then carry with you for the rest of your life, trying to confirm it or extend or correct or deny it; but you can never eliminate it (Italo Calvino Quotes)
Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world (Italo Calvino Quotes)
We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly (Italo Calvino Quotes)
Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst (Italo Calvino Quotes)
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins (Italo Calvino Quotes)
The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines (Italo Calvino Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city (Italo Calvino Quotes)
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions (Italo Calvino Quotes)
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary (Italo Calvino Quotes)
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one’s mother’s womb (Italo Calvino Quotes)
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words (Italo Calvino Quotes)
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner (Italo Calvino Quotes)
I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language (Italo Calvino Quotes)
The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written (Italo Calvino Quotes)
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death (Italo Calvino Quotes)
If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had a taste of the flavor and then had it denied him (Italo Calvino Quotes)
Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places (Italo Calvino Quotes)