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The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.
Italo Calvino
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Italo Calvino
Age: 62 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 15
Died: 1985
Died: September 19
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Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
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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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We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly.
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There is no language without deceit.
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Don't ask where the rest of this book is! It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the shelves. All books continue in the beyond.
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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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Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.
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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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I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
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If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.
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A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.
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Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make the big leap the opportunity to express yourself is offered that once, and you untie the knot within you then or never again.
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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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At times the mirror increases a thing’s value, at times denies it.
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Having exhausted every possibility at the moment when he was coming full circle, Antonino realised that photographing photographs was the only course that he had left - or, rather, the true course he had obscurely been seeking all this time. (Last line of the story The Adventure of a Photographer )
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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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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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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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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.
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What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
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