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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
