Italo Calvino Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

• Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.

  Italo Calvino

  Memories, Cities, Venice

• Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.

  Italo Calvino

  Memories, Fixed

  Italo Calvino (2013). “Invisible Cities”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Memory really matters...only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us to act without forgetting what we wanted to do, to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become.

  Italo Calvino

  Memories, Past, Together

• Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.

  Italo Calvino

  Memories, Cities, Redundant

  Italo Calvino (2013). “Invisible Cities”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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