Italo Calvino Quotes & Sayings

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I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.

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.

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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.

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

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