QUOTES by Italo Calvino
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"If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had a taste of the flavor and then had it denied him."
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"I felt a kind of vertigo, as if I were merely plunging from one world to another, and in each I arrived shortly after the end of the world had taken place."
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"Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing . . . out of which you can’t make anything."
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"So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really, as they say, the enjoyment of new and different things, and not, instead, the joy of expelling, discarding, cleansing itself of a recurrent impurity."
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"The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes."
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"Every choice has its obverse, that is to say a renunciation, and so there is no difference between the act of choosing and the act of renouncing"
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"In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions, and never stop believing that every little bit helps."
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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 city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand"
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"Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story."
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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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"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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"The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible."
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"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler."
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"…we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears."
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"Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do."
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"Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have."
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"I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains."
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"I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language."
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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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"The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death."
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"You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours."
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"Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be."
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"Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?"
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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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"The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner."
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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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"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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