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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
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.
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.
