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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
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.
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.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
If the spark doesn't come, that's a pity; but we do not read the classics out of duty or respect, but only out of love.
