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Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.
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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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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New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for that reason I prefer its horror to this privileged beauty, its enslavement to the freedoms which remain local and privileged and very particularized, and which do not represent a genuine antithesis.
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There is still one of which you never speak.' Marco Polo bowed his head. 'Venice,' the Khan said. Marco smiled. 'What else do you believe I have been talking to you about?' The emperor did not turn a hair. 'And yet I have never heard you mention that name.' And Polo said: 'Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice.
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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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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly.
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Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.
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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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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 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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Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.
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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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Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.
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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.
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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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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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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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Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young.
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