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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
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.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
