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Cosimo stretched out his arms. 'I came up here before you, my lords, and here I will stay afterwards too!'
-'You want to withdraw!' cried El Conde.
-'No, to resist,' replied the Baron.


Italo Calvino

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I like lost.
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BECCA FITZPATRICK i want to
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-Yes
-Do you want me to stay?
-Yes
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“S...
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"I am going, sir."

"You are leaving me?"

"Yes...
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“Come again?”
I swallowed,...
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made
of light and bread and shadow I...
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JENNIFER DONNELLY Tell me why you don't do it??
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from The Last Night of the Earth Poems

there’s a bluebird in my hear...
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I pluck you out the crannies,
I hold you here, root and all, in m...
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Color of the mountains
Colossal as the earth
Wrapped...
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i am not the whiskey you want
i am the water you need
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My eyes are drawn everywhere you are.

I...
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wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say...
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Blue replied sarcas...
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“No one sees you like I do.” …
“No one under...
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“No, you come here.”
“I said it first.”
“Rock paper...
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When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.

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When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.

Pr...
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Maybe.' I pull on my vest, wondering why I even c...
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[First intelligible words spoken over ...
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Why not?"

Sure."

H...
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TANZY SAYADI HELP!”
I race to the square, crossing it, looking all around, listening out-
No.<...
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"Assumi...
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Cut a hole in your heart
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"A new plan?" asked Lissa.

"A miracle?" asked Eddie....
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My plan was indeed to stay...
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Uh....Do I know you?"
Well, no....But you're here, all the same...
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to make every moment holy.
I am too ...
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"Something like that."
I let out a frustrated groan. "Can't anyon...
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My imaginary friend smirk...
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“I see.” Leaning f...
ANGELA B. WADE What were you thinking about just
now while you were looking out the window?" To his surprise, ...
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RACHEL VINCENT O, here
Will I set up my everlasting rest,
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
F...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now take my hand and hold it tight.
I will not fail you here tonight,
For failing you, I f...
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When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Prais...
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When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Prais...
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"if you were in here you might want that...
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"Who's there?"
"Olive."
"Olive who?"
"Olive...ooh. I love you, to...
JEAN FERRIS No sex?" He looked at me in disbelief. "Well if you can't have ze sex, what can you do?"

...
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"Aye, precisely."
"I need to go."
When she moved t...
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My fire is almost ashes too;
But once again, before you go, ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE My mouth opened.
It happened.
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Virtual Cole: to stay young forever

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Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain.
I love you still among...
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-You lie
-If I lie, why do I stand here before and beg on my knees t...
M Pin his fucking legs."
"Can't. Got his arms."
"Knock him out, Paris."
"Sure. Want me ...
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"What are you doing ...
RICHELLE MEAD No, not you two. Stay here.'
'Does he just not get how unfair and sexist that is?' Eve asked. '...
RACHEL CAINE did you think i was a city
big enough for a weekend getaway
i am the town surrounding it RUPI KAUR Rockabye Baby, in the treetop
Dont you know a treetop
is no safe place to rock?
And w...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Rockabye Baby, in the treetop
Dont you know a treetop
is no safe place to rock?
And who ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN My eyes meet his eyes.
“You were a jerk,” I say.
His hands move to my cheeks. “I’m...
CARRIE JONES She stretched out her hand, saying, “Vernon! My dear, what a delightful surprise!”
“What...
GEORGETTE HEYER I have to leave,” he whispered against her hair.
“No, stay.” Her face turned, her lips n...
LISA KLEYPAS When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.

RUMI Jayden cried out, "Shit, are you pissing on me?"

With her eyes wide, she shook her head. ...
TONI ALEO What if you died?"

"I'd sit up there on the edge of my cloud and throw stuff at you."
GRASSHOPPER I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you.
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“As long as you wan...
STEPHENIE MEYER My point is you're different here.
Hollis I've only been here for a month.
A lot can h...
SARAH DESSEN You were you,
and I was I;
we were two
before our time.

I was yours
b...
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I wanted to. I wa...
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When things will seem out of your hands ?

When ...
SANHITA BARUAH Paco is walking out of the bathroom and I rush past him.
"You might want to wait before you--" ...
SIMONE ELKELES ...I just pulled a pretty big job and needed to hide out for awhile."
"...Where's all the loot...
EOIN COLFER

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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
ITALO CALVINO Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and...
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ITALO CALVINO If all material were transparent—the ground that supports us, the envelope that sheathes our body...
ITALO CALVINO A los duelos suceden tarde o temprano acontecimientos alegres, es ley de vida.
ITALO CALVINO It was on the fifteenth of June, 1767, that Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, my brother, sat among us for ...
ITALO CALVINO ...his life was dominating by conflicting ideas, as often happens in periods of transition. The turb...
ITALO CALVINO That wish to enter into an elusive element which had urged Cosimo into the trees, was still working ...
ITALO CALVINO Si conobbero. Lui conobbe lei e se stesso, perché in verità non s'era mai saputo. E lei conobbe lu...
ITALO CALVINO Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpec...
ITALO CALVINO You are at the wheel of your car, waiting at a traffic light, you take the book out of the bag, rip ...
ITALO CALVINO Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I...
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ITALO CALVINO A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, "H...
ITALO CALVINO Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret,...
ITALO CALVINO ...eyes that, like those of children, look at an eternal present without forgiveness.
ITALO CALVINO A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
ITALO CALVINO In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
ITALO CALVINO What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is...
ITALO CALVINO Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could end...
ITALO CALVINO I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois.
ITALO CALVINO The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never h...
ITALO CALVINO Viaggi per rivivere il tuo passato? — era a questo punto la domanda del Kan, che poteva anche esse...
ITALO CALVINO If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a...
ITALO CALVINO Sections in the bookstore

- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- B...
ITALO CALVINO To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept ...
ITALO CALVINO Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered t...
ITALO CALVINO - Quando sarai stanco di star lì cambierai idea! - gli gridò.
- Non cambierò mai idea, - fec...
ITALO CALVINO Yo tenía la impresión de que mi hermano no sólo había enloquecido del todo, sino que se estaba v...
ITALO CALVINO Cosimo did not yet know love, and what is any experience without that? What point is there in riskin...
ITALO CALVINO Her breast was young, the nipples rosy. Cosimo just grazed it with his lips, before Viola slid away ...
ITALO CALVINO My mother delayed my enrollment in the Fascist scouts, the Balilla, as long as possible, fi...
ITALO CALVINO Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immedia...
ITALO CALVINO what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a pa...
ITALO CALVINO Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exerc...
ITALO CALVINO The naked man had lost hope now; he would never be able to return to the earth's surface;he would ne...
ITALO CALVINO The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here...
ITALO CALVINO The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to...
ITALO CALVINO The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, ...
ITALO CALVINO Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most ...
ITALO CALVINO Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me.
ITALO CALVINO What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the r...
ITALO CALVINO A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of b...
ITALO CALVINO Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.
ITALO CALVINO In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Follo...
ITALO CALVINO It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear
ITALO CALVINO A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompa...
ITALO CALVINO Ya en el escaparate de la librería localizaste la portada con el título que buscabas. Siguiendo es...
ITALO CALVINO Tu casa, al ser el lugar donde lees, puede decirnos cuál es el lugar que los libros tienen en tu vi...
ITALO CALVINO Amusement has always been the great moving force behind culture.
ITALO CALVINO hasta que murió, sin haber comprendido, tras una vida entera dedicada a la fe, en qué creía, pero...
ITALO CALVINO We live in a country where causes are always seen but never effects.
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ITALO CALVINO The more time passed, the less happened. The more they felt something must happen, the more the bail...
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ITALO CALVINO You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question ...
ITALO CALVINO ...an archer, the moment he thinks he's experienced, is lost; every lion we encounter in our brief l...
ITALO CALVINO Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.
ITALO CALVINO A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but...
ITALO CALVINO Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has,...
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ITALO CALVINO It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear
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ITALO CALVINO How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy...
ITALO CALVINO Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
ITALO CALVINO In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Follo...
ITALO CALVINO Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.
ITALO CALVINO I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to...
ITALO CALVINO It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the nig...
ITALO CALVINO Myśli te zaprawione były pewną goryczą ludzi starych, którzy więcej cierpią nad utratą rzecz...
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ITALO CALVINO Nuestro padre se asomó al antepecho.
- ¡Cuando te canses de estar ahí ya cambiarás de idea!...
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ITALO CALVINO In the Ondariva gardens the branches spread out like the tentacles of extraordinary animals, and the...
ITALO CALVINO Le imprese più ardite vanno vissute con l'animo più semplice. (Cosimo Piovasco Barone di Rondò)
ITALO CALVINO Why d’you make me suffer?"
“Because I love you.”
Now it was his turn to get angry. ...
ITALO CALVINO La mia ricerca dell’esattezza si biforca in due direzioni. Da una parte la riduzione degli avvenim...
ITALO CALVINO God knows wherebthey are now, the people I receive instructions, or rather-let's come right out and ...
ITALO CALVINO Journeys to relive your past?' was the Khan's question at this point, a question which could also ha...
ITALO CALVINO After a seven days' march through woodland, the traveler directed toward Baucis cannot see the city ...
ITALO CALVINO again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering.
ITALO CALVINO In Chloe, a great city, the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter...
ITALO CALVINO The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, ...
ITALO CALVINO His trees were now hung all over with scrawled pieces of paper and bits of cardboard with maxims fro...
ITALO CALVINO What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the r...
ITALO CALVINO Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
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ITALO CALVINO I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an ext...
ITALO CALVINO The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
ITALO CALVINO The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted ...
ITALO CALVINO The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretch...
ITALO CALVINO Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because...
ITALO CALVINO An exotic birthplace on its own is not informative of anything.
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ITALO CALVINO The only contact we could have with the void was through this little the void had produced as quinte...
ITALO CALVINO One writes fables in periods of oppression.
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ITALO CALVINO The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author,...
ITALO CALVINO The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand
ITALO CALVINO ...the world was trying to change its old face and show its underbelly of earth and roots.
ITALO CALVINO No puede haber amor si no se es uno mismo con todas sus fuerzas.
ITALO CALVINO A gentleman, my Lord Father, is such whether he is on earth or on the treetops
ITALO CALVINO That mesh of leaves and twigs of fork and froth, minute and endless, with the sky glimpsed only in s...
ITALO CALVINO Now that he is no longer here I should be interested in so many things: philosophy, politics, histor...
ITALO CALVINO We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
ITALO CALVINO And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able t...
ITALO CALVINO There is the moment when the silence of the countryside gathers in the ear and breaks into a myriad ...
ITALO CALVINO E combattendo, troveranno che le parole non hanno più significato.
ITALO CALVINO Resta-nos esclarecer a parte que nesse golfo fantástico cabe ao imaginário indireto, ou seja, o co...
ITALO CALVINO Penso che siamo sempre alla caccia di qualcosa di nascosto o di solo potenziale o ipotetico, di cui ...
ITALO CALVINO Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story...
ITALO CALVINO There is still one of which you never speak.'

Marco Polo bowed his head.

'Veni...
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ITALO CALVINO You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.
ITALO SVEVO Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I i...
ITALO SVEVO The problem is that remittances [from the United States] have made Salvadorans comfortable, and they...
ITALO ESCRICH The problem is that remittances [from the U.S.] have made Salvadorans comfortable and they don't wan...
ITALO ESCRICH God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
ITALO SVEVO There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember
ITALO SVEVO