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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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When I'm writing a book I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.
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Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.
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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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They knew each other. He knew her and so himself, for in truth he had never known himself. And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able to recognize it until now.
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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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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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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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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.
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How well I would write if I were not here!
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A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.
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Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.
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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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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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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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The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves
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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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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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What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
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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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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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