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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
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.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
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.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
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.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
