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Every time I must find something to do that will look like something a little beyond my capabilities.
Italo Calvino
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Italo Calvino
Age: 62 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 15
Died: 1985
Died: September 19
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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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The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives the sense of the world after the end of the world, the sense that the world is the end of everything that there is in the world, that the only thing there is in the world is the end of the world.
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Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make the big leap the opportunity to express yourself is offered that once, and you untie the knot within you then or never again.
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What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
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Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased, Polo said. Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.
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Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.
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Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.
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Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young.
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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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The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
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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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...Life is nothing but trading smells.
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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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Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into dreams or into the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic and with fresh methods of cognition and verification.
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The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand
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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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I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.
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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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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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Success consists in felicity of verbal expression, which every so often may result from a quick flash of inspiration but as a rule involves a patient search... for the sentence in which every word is unalterable.
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