Italo Calvino World Quotations

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.

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.

Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.

The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives the sense of the world after the end of the world, the sense that the world is the end of everything that there is in the world, that the only thing there is in the world is the end of the world.

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We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly.