Quotes from Invisible Cities — Italo Calvino
1923–1985 Italy
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"Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me."
Polo answers: "Without stones there is no arch."
Invisible Cities (1972)
As this wave from memories flows in, the city soaks it up like a sponge and expands. (di quest'onda che rifluisce dai ricordi la città s'imbeve coma una spugna e si dilata). The city, however, does not tell of its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand...
Invisible Cities (1972)
With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.
Invisible Cities (1972)