Collection of Sand Quotes

“I have finally come around to asking myself what is expressed in that sand of written words which I have strung together throughout my life, that sand that seems to me to be so far away from the beaches and desert of living. Perhaps by staring at the sand as sand, words as words, we can come close to understanding how and to what extent the world that has been ground down and eroded can still find in sand a foundation and model.”
― Italo Calvino, Collezione di sabbia

“Trajano, muerto en Selinonte, donde lo incineraron, fue sustituido para su triunfo en Roma por un maniquí de cera que se incineró con los honores debidos a un emperador destinado a subir al cielo.)”
― Italo Calvino, Colección de arena

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― Italo Calvino, Colección de arena

“Creating a space and time for reflection and imagination and study presupposes an accumulation of wealth, and behind every accumulation of wealth there are obscure lives subject to labour and sacrifices and oppression without any hope. Every project or image that allows us to to reach out towards another way of being outside the injustice that surrounds us carries the mark of the injustice without which it could not have been conceived.”
― Italo Calvino, Collection of Sand