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Falsehood is never in words it is in things.

Italo Calvino

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Italo Calvino
Age: 62 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 15
Died: 1985
Died: September 19
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Santiago de Compostela de las Vegas
Italo Giovanni Calvino Mameli
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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure of expectation in a carefully circumscribed area like the field of books, where you can be lucky or unlucky, but the risk of disappointment isn't serious.
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Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.
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Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.
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In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions, and never stop believing that every little bit helps.
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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.
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The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand
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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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You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before
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Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.
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You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more faces, more expressions: on every new face you encounter, it prints the old forms, for each one it finds the most suitable mask.
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Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased, Polo said. Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.
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The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.
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There is no language without deceit.
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...Life is nothing but trading smells.
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To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place for a duration that is itself a kind of void in time then you reappear, in a place and in a moment with no relation to the where and when in which you vanished.
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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 ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
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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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What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
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