Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Roberto Calasso

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian writer Roberto Calasso.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Roberto Calasso was an Italian writer and publisher. Apart from his mother tongue, Calasso was fluent in French, English, Spanish, German, Latin and ancient Greek. He also studied Sanskrit. He has been called "a literary institution of one". The fundamental thematic concept of his œuvre is the relationship between myth and the emergence of modern consciousness.

Italian - Writer | Born: May 30, 1941

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Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.

Roberto Calasso

We establish a connection with the unknown through the act of giving something and, paradoxically, the act of destroying something. That is what is behind sacrifice. What you offer and what you destroy, it is that surplus which is life itself.

Roberto Calasso

Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned

Roberto Calasso

Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about an old mystery: what has or hasn't happened in bed for centuries. Rich in insights about sex, lies, and personal identity, the result is entertaining, enthralling, and, yes, sexy.

Roberto Calasso

The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author.

Roberto Calasso

The gods are fugitive guests of literature.

Roberto Calasso

Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.

Roberto Calasso

Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

Roberto Calasso

The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts the monster, he has yet neither power nor knowledge, the monster is his secret father who will invest him with a power and knowledge that can belong to one man only, and that only the monster can give.

Roberto Calasso

Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Roberto Calasso

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