Italo Calvino Quotes (10+)

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.

The ultimate meaning of all stories: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals.

The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we know in ourselves.

One should be light like a bird and not like a feather.

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.

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

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