Quotes About Perception
Chi comanda alla racconto non è la voce: è l'orecchio.
~ Italo Calvino
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La menzogna non è nel discorso, è nelle cose.
~ Italo Calvino
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You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
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But by now all his stories are so saturated with falsehood that anything said about him is false. He's succeeded in this, at least.
~ Italo Calvino
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Inutilmente chiudete le vostre porte, - questa era la risposta che ci si poteva attendere dalla portatrice d'acqua, - io mi guardo bene dall'entrare in una Città che è tutta di metallo compatto. Noi abitatori del fluido visitiamo solo gli elementi che scorrono e si mescolano.
~ Italo Calvino
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O bella! Questo suddito qui che c'è ma non sa d'esserci e quel mio paladino là che sa d'esserci e invece non c'è. Fanno un bel paio, ve lo dico io!
~ Italo Calvino
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You try to picture how the world might appear, this world dense with writing that surrounds us on all sides, to someone who has learned not to read.
~ Italo Calvino
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It is only when they have the photos before their eyes that they seem to take tangible possession of the day they spent, only then that the mountain stream, the movement of the child with his pail, the glint of sun on the wife's legs take on the irrevocability of what has been and can no longer be doubted.
~ Italo Calvino
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Your footsteps follow not what is outside the eyes, but what is within, buried, erased.
~ Italo Calvino
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Si alguna vez te conviertes en la mitad de ti mismo, muchacho, y te lo deseo, comprenderás cosas que escapan a la normal inteligencia de los cerebros enteros. Habrás perdido la mitad de ti y del mundo, pero la mitad que quede será mil veces más profunda y valiosa. Y también tú querrás que todo esté demediado y desgarrado a tu imagen, porque belleza y sabiduría y justicia existen sólo en aquello que está hecho a trozos.
~ Italo Calvino
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This sense of concreteness that you perceived at the very first line bears in it also the sense of loss, the vertigo of dissolution, and you realize that you perceived this, too, alert Reader that you are, from the first page, when though pleased with the precision of this writing, you sensed that, to tell the truth, everything was slip through your fingers…
~ Italo Calvino
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This – some say – confirms the hypothesis that each man bears in his mind a city made only of differences, a city without figures and without form, and the individual cities fill it up.
~ Italo Calvino
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The only truth I can write is that of the instant I am living.
~ Italo Calvino
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Il passato (proprio per il fatto d'avere un'immagine così compiuta nella quale non si poteva pensare di cambiar nulla come in quel dormitorio) gli pareva una gran trappola. E il futuro, quando ci se ne fa un'immagine (cioè lo si annette al passato), diventava una trappola esso pure.
~ Italo Calvino
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Sire, désormais je t'ai parlé de toutes les villes que je connais. — Il en reste une dont tu ne parles jamais. Marco Polo baissa la tête. — Venise, dit le Khan. Marco sourit. — Chaque fois que je fais la description d'une ville, je dis quelque chose de Venise. — Quand je t'interroge sur d'autres villes, je veux t'entendre parler d'elles. Et de Venise, quand je t'interroge sur Venise.
~ Italo Calvino
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La ciudad, para el que pasa sin entrar, es una, y otra para el que está preso de ella y no sale; una es la ciudad a la que se llega la primera vez, otra la que se deja para no volver; cada una merece un nombre diferente; quizá de Irene he hablado ya bajo otros nombres; quizá no he hablado sino de Irene.
~ Italo Calvino
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La mia ricerca dell'esattezza si biforca in due direzioni. Da una parte la riduzione degli avvenimenti contingenti a schemi astratti con cui si possano compiere operazioni e dimostrare teoremi; e dall'altra parte lo sforzo delle parole per render conto con la maggior precisione possibile dell'aspetto sensibile delle cose.
~ Italo Calvino
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Le cose che il romanzo non dice sono necessariamente più di quelle che dice, e solo un particolare riverbero di ciò che è scritto può dare l'illusione di stare leggendo anche il non scritto.
~ Italo Calvino
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Perhaps nothing escapes this fate but the liveliness and nimbleness of the mind—the very qualities with which the novel is written, qualities that belong to a universe other than the one we live in.
~ Italo Calvino
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The city displays one face to the traveler arriving overland and a different one to him who arrives by sea.
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Your relationship with objects is selective, personal; only the things you feel yours become yours: it is a relationship with the physicality of things, not with an intellectual or affective idea that takes the place of seeing them and touching them.
~ Italo Calvino
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For this woman," Arkadian Porphyrich continues, seeing how intently you are drinking in his words, "reading means stripping herself of every forgone conclusion, to be ready to catch a voice that comes from an unknown source, from somewhere beyond the book, beyond the author, beyond the conventions of writing: from the unsaid, from what the world has not yet said of itself and does not yet have the words to say.
~ Italo Calvino
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Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm; or else someone's gaze, answer, gesture is enough; it is enough for someone to do something for the sheer pleasure of doing it, and for his pleasure to become the pleasure of others: at that moment, all spaces change, all heights, distances; the city is transfigured, becomes
~ Italo Calvino
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Lo que dirige el relato no es la voz: es el oído.
~ Italo Calvino
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