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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
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.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
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.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
