Italo Calvino Quotes about Giving

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The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The

The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.

Italo Calvino

Two, Space, Giving

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seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space

Italo Calvino

Space, Giving, Inferno

Italo Calvino, Michael Wood, Martin L. McLaughlin (2013). “Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985”, p.13, Princeton University Press

You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.

Italo Calvino

Cities, Giving, Delight

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.

Italo Calvino

Book, Giving, World

Italo Calvino (2010). “If On A Winter's Night A Traveller”, p.243, Random House

The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.

Italo Calvino

Reading, Giving, Special

Italo Calvino (2010). “If On A Winter's Night A Traveller”, p.203, Random House