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The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.
Italo Calvino
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Italo Calvino
Age: 62 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 15
Died: 1985
Died: September 19
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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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Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.
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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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What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure of expectation in a carefully circumscribed area like the field of books, where you can be lucky or unlucky, but the risk of disappointment isn't serious.
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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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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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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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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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Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.
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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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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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Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.
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Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.
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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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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
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The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
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Why come to Trude? I asked myself. And I already wanted to leave. You cand resume your flight whereever you like, they say to me, but you will arive at another Trude, absolutely the same, detail by detail. The world is covered by a sole Trude which does not begin and does not end. Only the names of the airport changes.
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