Italo Calvino's most famous quotes
The top 3 according to 2 votes from people: The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. · A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. · Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.. (Updated Dec 17, 2024.)
From the classic that "has never finished saying what it has to say" to cities made of desires and fears: Italo Calvino's most quoted lines, with the book they come from.
Automatically translated (original in Italiano). See the original
Top 11
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The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
Hermit in Paris (1994).
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Why Read the Classics? (1991).
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Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.
Invisible Cities (1972).
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The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day.
Invisible Cities (1972), ending.
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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
Invisible Cities (1972).
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Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by stone.
Invisible Cities (1972).
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Whoever wants to see the earth properly must keep at the necessary distance.
The Baron in the Trees (1957).
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I shall uphold the values of lightness.
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (1988), "Lightness".
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In eros as in gluttony, pleasure is made of precision.
Introduction to Fourier, The Theory of the Four Movements (1971).
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I am the black sheep, the only man of letters in the family.
In Ritratti su misura di scrittori italiani (1960).
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11
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax.
If on a winter's night a traveler (1979), opening.
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