Quotes by Calvino, Italo

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

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to r >>

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is no >>

Quotations about Consciousness

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it f >>

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which >>

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. >>

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.

Calvino, Italo