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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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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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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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There is no language without deceit.
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Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one could foresee. Play has always been the mainspring of culture.
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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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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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For the man who thought he was Man there is no salvation.
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It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible
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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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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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Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
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At times the mirror increases a thing’s value, at times denies it.
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You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before
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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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The novels that attract me most are those that create an illusion of transparency around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel, and perverse as possible.
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Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings...if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough.
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My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it.
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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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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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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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