“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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“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
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“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
Italo Calvino
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.”
Italo Calvino
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“The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.”
Italo Calvino
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Humankind
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“It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.”
Italo Calvino
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“Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.”
Italo Calvino
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“The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.”
Italo Calvino
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
