Italo Calvino Quotes

• Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.

  Italo Calvino

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• The gaze of dogs who don’t understand and who don’t know that they may be right not to understand.

  Italo Calvino

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• Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

  Italo Calvino

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• A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

  Italo Calvino

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  Tags in Classic, Saying, Book, Books, Reading

• The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

  Italo Calvino

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Will, City

• The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

  Italo Calvino

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Satirist, Sarcasm, World, Concern

• The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

  Italo Calvino

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  Tags in Humankind, Zone, Tracing, Race, Living

• What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one’s nose, taking shortcuts.

  Italo Calvino

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Right, Road, Romantic, Finding, Talent, Inspiration

• It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

  Italo Calvino

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  Tags in Ear, Voice

• Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

  Italo Calvino

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  Tags in Travel

• In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

  Italo Calvino

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Gluttony, Pleasure

• 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.

  Italo Calvino

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  Tags in Data, Autobiography, Declare, Openly

• The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

  Italo Calvino

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  Tags in Enlightened, Wall

Italo Calvino (13)

Birth:	15th October, 1923
Death:	19th September, 1985
Nationality:	Italian
Profession:	Journalist, Novelist, Writer

About

Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy, the Cosmicomics collection of short stories, and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler. Lionised in Britain and the United States, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a noted contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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