Quotes by Italo Calvino

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

Art

Book

Literature

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

Book

Discovery

Reading

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.

Ancient

Book

Classic

A person’s life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not because it counts more than the previous ones but because once they are included in a life, events are arranged in an order that is not chronological but, rather, corresponds to an inner architecture.

Events

Lasts

Order

Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.

Lying

Motivational

Travel

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.

Autobiography

Data

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.

Cities

Desire

Dream

Don’t ask where the rest of this book is!” It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the shelves. “All books continue in the beyond.

Book

Cry

Shelves

Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.

Body

Cairo

Smell

Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.

Cooking

Food

Sky

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Continuity Of Life

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Cutting

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Quotes by Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

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

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.

Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.

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.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.

Don’t ask where the rest of this book is!” It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the shelves. “All books continue in the beyond.

Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.

Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.

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