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Italo Calvino Quotes

Italo Calvino quotes

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

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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. Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino quote: "Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young."
Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young. Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino quote: "In general confusion youth recognizes itself and rejoices."
In general confusion youth recognizes itself and rejoices. Italo Calvino
To fall in the void as I fell: none of you knows what that mean? I went down into the void, to the most absolute bottom conceivable, and once there I saw that the extreme limit must have been much, much farther below, very remote, and I went on falling, to reach it. Italo Calvino
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions. Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino quote: "The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it..."
The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino quote: "How well I would write if I were not here!"
How well I would write if I were not here! Italo Calvino
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino quote: "It is only through the confining act of writing that the..."
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino quote: "You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood..."
You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino quote: "The human race is a zone of living things that should be..."
The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. Italo Calvino
Whether there is such a thing as Reality, of which the various levels are only partial aspects, or whether there are only levels, is something that literature cannot decide. Literature recognizes rather the *reality of the levels.* Italo Calvino
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 Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino quote: "For the man who thought he was Man there is no salvation."
For the man who thought he was Man there is no salvation. Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino quote: "The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze..."
The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts. Italo Calvino

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