Italo Calvino Quotes about Travel

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

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

Italo Calvino

Travel, Natural, Exile

Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.347, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

Travel, Distance, Clouds

Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.

Italo Calvino

Motivational, Travel, Lying