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Italo Calvino Quotes

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Italian Journalist, Writer October 15, 1923 – September 19, 1985

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Italo Calvino quote: "Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of..."
Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Italo Calvino
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. Italo Calvino
How is it possible to defeat not the authors but the functions of the author, the idea that behind each book there is someone who guarantees a truth in that world of ghosts and inventions by the mere fact of having invested in it his own truth, of having identified himself with that construction of words? Italo Calvino
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... Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino quote: "A classic is the term given to any book which comes to..."
A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans. Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino quote: "A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has..."
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. Italo Calvino

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