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You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before.
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Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.
Italo Calvino
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The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
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Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.
Italo Calvino -
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
Italo Calvino -
A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.
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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Italo Calvino