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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
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.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
