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My confidence in the future o...

My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it.

Italo Calvino 164 quotes

What Romantic terminology call...

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

Italo Calvino 164 quotes

The ideal place for me is the ...

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

Italo Calvino 164 quotes

Melancholy is sadness that has...

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness

Italo Calvino 164 quotes

Revolutionaries are more forma...

Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.

Italo Calvino 164 quotes

A classic is a book that has n...

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Italo Calvino 164 quotes

Myth is the hidden part of eve...

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.

Italo Calvino 164 quotes

The unconscious is the ocean o...

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.

Italo Calvino 164 quotes

The human race is a zone of li...

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Italo Calvino 164 quotes

I do not have any political co...

I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party.

Italo Calvino 164 quotes

Your first book already define...

Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then carry with you for the rest of your life, trying to confirm it or extend or correct or deny it; but you can never eliminate it.

Italo Calvino 164 quotes

Traveling, you realize that di...

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

Italo Calvino 164 quotes

In love, as in gluttony, pleas...

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

Italo Calvino 164 quotes

It is not the voice that comma...

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

Italo Calvino 164 quotes

The catalogue of forms is endl...

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Italo Calvino 164 quotes

The more enlightened our house...

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

Italo Calvino 164 quotes

The satirist is prevented by r...

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

Italo Calvino 164 quotes

What Romantic terminology call...

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

Italo Calvino 164 quotes

Everything has already begun b...

Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.

Italo Calvino 164 quotes

It was the hour in which objec...

It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to cross meanwhile an uncertain limbo, faintly touched, just breathed on by light; the hour in which one is least certain of the world's existence.

Italo Calvino 164 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....