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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
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.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
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.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
