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The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand
Italo Calvino
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Italo Calvino
Age: 62 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 15
Died: 1985
Died: September 19
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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.
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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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The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.
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Renouncing things is less difficult than people believe: it's all a matter of getting started. Once you've succeeded in dispensing with something you thought essential, you realize you can also do without something else, then without many other things.
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Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
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Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.
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The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there.
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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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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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How well I would write if I were not here!
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Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young.
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