The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.
One reads alone, even in another's presence. - Italo Calvino
One reads alone, even in another's presence.
- Italo Calvino
You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst. - Italo Calvino
You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.
You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before - Italo Calvino
You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before
The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves - Italo Calvino
The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves
Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into dreams or into t… - Italo Calvino
Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into dreams or into t…
Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased. - Italo Calvino
Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. - Italo Calvino
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of o… - Italo Calvino
A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of o…
Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedi… - Italo Calvino
Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedi…
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