Author: Italo Calvino

Quotes

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

- Italo Calvino

A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

- Italo Calvino

I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.

I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.

- Italo Calvino

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

- Italo Calvino

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