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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
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.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
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.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
