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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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I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
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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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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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The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.
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You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before
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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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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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Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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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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Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
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For the man who thought he was Man there is no salvation.
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Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.
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Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.
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Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.
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There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say that such a library ought to be composed half of books we have read and that have really counted for us, and half of books we propose to read and presume will come to count—leaving a section of empty shelves for surprises and occasional discoveries
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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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