Italo Calvino Citas

• It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.

  Italo Calvino

  Voice, Ghost, Within You

  Italo Calvino (2012). “Under the Jaguar Sun”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Un clásico es un libro que nunca ha terminado de decir lo que tiene que decir.

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  Art, Book, Literature

  Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.

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  Dream, Cities, Perspective

  "Invisible Cities". Book by Italo Calvino, www.theguardian.com. 1972.

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• 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.

  Italo Calvino

  Order, Events, Lasts

  Italo Calvino (1986). “Mr. Palomar”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves

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  Mirrors, Contemplating, Knows

  Italo Calvino (1985). “Mr. Palomar”, Harcourt

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• Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.

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  Police, Irony, States

  Italo Calvino (2012). “If on a winter's night a traveler”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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  Communication, Voice, Stories

  "Invisible Cities". Book by Italo Calvino, ch. 9, 1974.

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• Un ser humano se convierte en tal no por la convergencia casual de ciertas condiciones biológicas, sino por un acto de voluntad y amor por parte de otras personas.

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  People, And Love, Casual

  Italo Calvino (2013). “Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985”, p.454, Princeton University Press

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• 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 encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.

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  Book, Style, Library

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• The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

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  Travel, Natural, Exile

  Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.347, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before

  Italo Calvino

  Forgotten, Understood

  Italo Calvino (2014). “The Complete Cosmicomics”, p.204, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• El infierno de los vivos no es algo que será; si lo hay, es lo que ya está aquí, el infierno en el que vivimos cada día, que formamos estando juntos. Hay dos maneras de escapar a sufrirlo. La primera es fácil para muchos: aceptar el infierno y formar parte de él hasta el punto de no verlo más. La segunda es arriesgada y exige vigilancia y aprensión constantes: buscar y aprender a reconocer quiénes y qué, en medio del infierno, no son el infierno, y luego hacerles perdurar, darles espacio.

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  Two, Space, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had a taste of the flavor and then had it denied him.

  Italo Calvino

  Kissing, Flavor, Taste

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• Cada vez que la humanidad parece condenada a la pesadez, pienso que debería volar como Perseo a un espacio diferente. No me refiero a escapar a los sueños o a lo irracional. Quiero decir que debo cambiar mi enfoque, mirar el mundo desde otra perspectiva, con otra lógica y con métodos frescos de cognición y verificación.

  Italo Calvino

  Dream, Believe, Mean

  "Six Memos for the Next Millennium".

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• The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls.

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  Past, Hands, Cities

  Italo Calvino (2013). “Invisible Cities”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.

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  Memories, Fixed

  Italo Calvino (2013). “Invisible Cities”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• En el amor, como en la gula, el placer es una cuestión de máxima precisión.

  Italo Calvino

  Love, Matter, Pleasure

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• They knew each other. He knew her and so himself, for in truth he had never known himself. And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able to recognize it until now.

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  Able, Known

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• Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie.

  Italo Calvino

  Lying, Novelists, Pieces

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• Sólo después de conocer la superficie de las cosas... puedes aventurarte a buscar lo que hay debajo. Pero la superficie de las cosas es inagotable.

  Italo Calvino

  Venture, Surface, Knows

  Italo Calvino (1986). “Mr. Palomar”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.

  Italo Calvino

  Worst, Knows

  Italo Calvino (2012). “If on a winter's night a traveler”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• El conocimiento del mundo significa disolver la solidez del mundo.

  Italo Calvino

  Mean, World, Dissolving

  Italo Calvino (1988). “Six Memos for the Next Millennium”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• En política, como en cualquier otro ámbito de la vida, hay dos principios importantes para un hombre sensato: no hacerse demasiadas ilusiones y no dejar nunca de creer que todo ayuda.

  Italo Calvino

  Believe, Men, Two

  Italo Calvino (2013). “The Watcher and Other Stories”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?

  Italo Calvino

  Library, Harbors

  Italo Calvino (2012). “If on a winter's night a traveler”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The minute you start saying something, 'Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!' you are already close to view of the person who thinks that everything that is not photographed is lost, as if it had never existed, and that therefore, in order really to live, you must photograph as much as you can, and to photograph as much as you can you must either live in the most photographable way possible, or else consider photographable every moment of your life. The first course leads to stupidity; the second to madness.

  Italo Calvino

  Beautiful, Thinking, Order

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