Italo Calvino citáty
Italo Calvino
Datum narození: 15. říjen 1923
Datum úmrtí: 19. září 1985
Italo Calvino patří mezi nejvýznamnější italské spisovatele druhé poloviny 20. století.
Citáty Italo Calvino
„Má tvář Botticelliho Venuše, a její tělo je jedinečná symfonie.“
— Italo Calvino
o Silvaně Manganové
„A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.“
— Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
„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, Invisible Cities
Context: 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.
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„What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?“
— Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
„One reads alone, even in another's presence.“
— Italo Calvino, 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
„Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.“
— Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
„Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.“
— Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
