#Quote
More Quotes by Italo Calvino
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
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.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
