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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
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 universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
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.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
