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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
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.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
