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Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino föddes den 15 oktober 1923 och dog den 19 september 1985
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The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

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

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.

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

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

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.

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

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness

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

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.

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.

When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they don't want to hear the word mentioned.

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

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.

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

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