“The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living that has a meaning separate from the rest-for example, the meeting of two people, which will become decisive for both-must bear in mind that each of the two brings with himself a texture of events, environments, other people, and that from the meeting, in turn, other stories will be derived which will break off from their common story.” PeopleMindHumansTwoStoriesFormTurnsIndividualCommonRaceBreakEnvironmentPiecesEventsExampleBearsConstantMeetingsHuman RacePlotTextureOne PieceBreak Off Author:Italo Calvino
“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.” IfsWayGivingFirstsTwoTogetherFormSufferingEasySpaceAcceptingDemandConstantEndureMidstTwo WaysApprehensionVigilanceInfernoBeing TogetherLive Every Day Author:Italo Calvino
“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.” FormOrderLostRealizingDifferencesCitiesTravelDistanceCloudsDustRacistContinents Author:Italo Calvino
“The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.” EndsFormFoundBornCitiesShapesEndlessVarietyCity LifeCataloguesCities At Night Author:Italo Calvino
“You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more faces, more expressions: on every new face you encounter, it prints the old forms, for each one it finds the most suitable mask.” PeopleMindMomentsFacesFormKnownAcceptingExpressionRefuseEncountersMaskPrintSuitableNew Faces Book:Invisible Cities Source: Invisible Cities
“It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.” KnowsPersonsBookRealFormReadingReal Person Author:Italo Calvino
“I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.” HumansMayFormAssumingExtremesCyclesPrisonerModernityModernismHuman SocietyGaudy Book:Invisible Cities Source: Invisible Cities
