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The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
Italo Calvino
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Italo Calvino
Age: 62 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 15
Died: 1985
Died: September 19
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The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
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There is no language without deceit.
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It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.
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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 nose, taking shortcuts.
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It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible.
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Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into dreams or into the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic and with fresh methods of cognition and verification.
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Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. There is the blueprint, they say.
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The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves
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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.
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Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.
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For the man who thought he was Man there is no salvation.
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Success consists in felicity of verbal expression, which every so often may result from a quick flash of inspiration but as a rule involves a patient search... for the sentence in which every word is unalterable.
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Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.
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Why come to Trude? I asked myself. And I already wanted to leave. You cand resume your flight whereever you like, they say to me, but you will arive at another Trude, absolutely the same, detail by detail. The world is covered by a sole Trude which does not begin and does not end. Only the names of the airport changes.
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seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space
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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.
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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.
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I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
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Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have a function.
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