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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
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 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.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
