Italo Calvino Zitate und Sprüche
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino: Zitate auf Englisch
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
Italo Calvino The Uses of Literature
Quelle: The Uses of Literature
Italo Calvino buch Invisible Cities
Page 44.
Quelle: Invisible Cities (1972)
Kontext: With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. 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.
Italo Calvino buch Cosmicomics
Pages 46-47, "All at One Point".
Cosmicomics (1965)
“What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?”
Quelle: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino buch Invisible Cities
Quelle: Invisible Cities
“One reads alone, even in another's presence.”
Quelle: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.”
Italo Calvino The Uses of Literature
Quelle: The Uses of Literature
Italo Calvino buch Invisible Cities
Quelle: Invisible Cities
“Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.”
Quelle: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.”
Italo Calvino buch Invisible Cities
Quelle: Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino buch Invisible Cities
Quelle: Invisible Cities
“I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.”
Quelle: Six Memos For The Next Millennium
“Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.”
Italo Calvino buch Invisible Cities
Quelle: Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino buch Invisible Cities
Quelle: Invisible Cities
“Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.”
Quelle: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.”
Italo Calvino buch Invisible Cities
Quelle: Invisible Cities
Quelle: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
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Quelle: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Quelle: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
