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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

Other quotes by Italo Calvino


Cities

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
Living

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

- Italo Calvino
Voice

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

- Italo Calvino
Cities End Will

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
Saying

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

- Italo Calvino
Love

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

- Italo Calvino

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