t zero Quotes

“Vuoto separazione e attesa, questo siamo.”
― Italo Calvino, t zero

“Of course, if he chooses, a person can also take it into his head to find an order in the stars, the galaxies, an order in the lighted windows of the empty skyscrapers where between nine and midnight the cleaning women wax the floors of the offices. Rationalize, that's the big task: rationalize if you don't want everything to come apart.”
― Italo Calvino, t zero

“Now you can understand me: if I love order, it's not —as with so many others—the mark of a character subjected to an inner discipline, a repression of the instincts. In me the idea of an absolutely regular world, symmetrical and methodical, is associated with that first impulse and burgeoning of nature, that amorous tension —what you call eros—while all the rest of your images, those that according to you associate passion with disorder, love with intemperate overflow—river fire whirlpool volcano—for me are memories of nothingness and listlessness and boredom.”
― Italo Calvino, t zero

“Forse pagavo la felicità con la rinuncia a capire quello che vivevo”
― Italo Calvino, t zero

“To plan a book — or an escape — the first thing to know is what to exclude.”
― Italo Calvino, t zero

“Io tenevo dietro a Vug con l'animo diviso tra felicità e timore: felicità a vedere come ogni sostanza che componeva il mondo trovasse una sua forma definitiva e salda, e un timore ancora indeterminato che questo trionfare dell'ordine in fogge tanto varie potesse riprodurre su un'altra scala il disordine che ci eravamo appena lasciati alle spalle”
― Italo Calvino, t zero