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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.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
If the spark doesn't come, that's a pity; but we do not read the classics out of duty or respect, but only out of love.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
