Italo Calvino

"To know the world, one must construct it."

"Speed and slowness are only different rhythms of the same movement."

"The city does not consist in its geography alone."

"Every moment contains infinite possibility."

"What matters is the path taken, not the destination reached."

"Literature is the space of absolute freedom."

"The writer must be inside his characters; otherwise he cannot describe them."

"To read is to resist the flattening of experience."

"The invisible landscape is more real than the visible one."

"Cities are dreams in the minds of men."

"Structure is the way chaos becomes meaningful."

"A person is never complete unto himself; he is always part of a system."

"The beginning of the narrative is a veil drawn over the future."

"Narrative is the thread that connects the disconnected."

"One cannot live without literature in the age of technology."

"To become invisible is the highest achievement of a writer."

"The lightness of stone is heavier than we think."

"Silence is a form of communication in crowded places."

"History is written not by victors but by those who tell the best stories."

"The future is already written in the past."

"Imagination is the only border that humans have not yet crossed."

"Beauty exists in the tension between order and chaos."

"To write is to leave a trail in the darkness."

"The city breathes like a living organism."

"In the labyrinth of choices, one discovers one's true self."

"Words are doors that lead to other worlds."

"The map is not the territory, but the territory is always changing."

"Time is a city with infinite streets."

"To ask a question is to begin a journey."

"The present is always an intersection of past and future."