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...Life is nothing but trading smells.
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
Italo Giovanni Calvino
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Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.
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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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What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
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When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they don't want to hear the word mentioned.
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I am a 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.
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Every time I must find something to do that will look like something a little beyond my capabilities.
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Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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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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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
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The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.
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