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Italo Calvino Quotes

Italo Calvino quotes about memories

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

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His trees were now hung all over with scrawled pieces of paper and bits of cardboard with maxims from Seneca and Shaftesbury, and with various objects; clusters of feathers, church candles, crowns of leaves, women's corsets, pistols, scales, tied to each other in certain order. The Ombrosians used to spend hours trying to guess what those symbols meant: nobles, Pope, virtue, war? I think some of them had no meaning at all but just served to jog his memory and make him realize that even the... Italo Calvino
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. Italo Calvino
Memory really matters...only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us to act without forgetting what we wanted to do, to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become. Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino quote: "Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased."
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased. Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino quote: "Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased,'..."
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased,' Polo said. Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino quote: "Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased."
Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased. Italo Calvino
The city is redundant: it repeats itself so that something will stick in the mind. […] Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist. Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino quote: "Memory really matters...only if it enables us to become..."
Memory really matters...only if it enables us to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become. Italo Calvino

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