Italo Calvino Quote

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.

If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.

Now life is given in exchange for pain and fear, and that's the basis of the whole deception. Now man is still not what he should be. There will e a new man, happy and proud. Whoever doesn't care whet...

We, men, who work hard to get somewhere in life, to make something of ourselves in life, to mean something to someone, to have what our ancestors never had.....We, men, who toil for a name, respect, l...

I see that my presence is burdensome to you. Painful as it was for me to become convinced of it, I see that it is so and cannot be otherwise. I do not blame you, and God is my witness that, seeing you...

Anger was buried far too early in a young heart, which perhaps contained much good.

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

A man leaves his great house because he's boredWith life at home, and suddenly returns,Finding himself no happier abroad.He rushes off to his villa driving like mad,You'ld think he's going to a house...

The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.