In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
From Italo Calvino
The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?
Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.
One writes fables in periods of oppression.
The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.
It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear.
Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.
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