The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two fac… - Italo Calvino

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The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

Italo Calvino

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About Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino (October 15, 1923 – September 19, 1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. Lionized in Britain and America, he was, at the time of his death, the most-translated contemporary Italian writer.

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Alternative Names: Italo Giovanni Calvino • Italo Giovanni Calvino Mameli

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The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an abyss.

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although science interests me just because of its efforts to escape from anthropomorphic knowledge, I am nonetheless convinced that our imagination cannot be anything but anthropomorphic.

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death. - Italo Calvino

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